Cutting the power without unmounting the filesystem

[horio shoichi]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:40:53 +0100
"Rickard Dahlstrand" <rd at tilde.se> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a computer that will have it's power removed quite often. In other word It will not unmount the file system. What kind of implications does this have in the long term?
> 
> I have discovered that the start-up takes much longer because of having to clean the file system. Is there a way to prevent this and what harm can cutting the power have on the system?
> 
> I know of some installations that use read-only mounting. Is it possible to mount / RO and /etc and /var RW? Will that speed up the boot process?
> 
> Best Regards, Rickard.
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If you have / readonly, you cannot make /etc RW since they cannot be separate
partitions. (As an exercise, consider a problem how to mount /etc when
/etc/fstab isn't mounted.)

However, having /var partition separate is quite common and I think is
a recommended practice. And, of course, it must be a read/write partition.

Now, a dumb question... Are you terminating your machine with halt or shutdown
command ? Does your machine cleanly stop ?


horio shoichi