:~>I am not sure what you are referring to here.
:~>We had a power outage and I was all worried because
:~>everyone talks about what happens when you don't
:~>cleanly boot out of Linux, but it came back up fine.
:~>It forces a 'scan' of the Linux partitions, but they come
:~>back 'passed'.
Once in a while it can happen that you have to run fsck manually and
answer "yes" to all its question. It can happen that you loose a file or
two in a proces -> parts of the files end-up in /lost-and-found dir.
The reason for this is always the same: no journaling system, therefore if
system crashes in the middle of writing a file, we have a problem. Same
problem exists on vfat, I do not know about NTFS.
This could lead to problems, If you have been editing /etc/fstab at the
moment of crash, but usually it is just a minor nuisance. During last 6
years, I have managed a small cluster of linux machines at university
of Vienna. These machines were never shut down unless we got power
problems. In this time, our building was hit by a lightning twice, which
caused total electricity loss, and burn-up of some network cards. During
last 2 years, there were intensive renovation works in the building, and
workers have repeteately cut of power cables (network cables too,
including the backbone once). All-in-all, a rather hard working
enviroment, and in all this time I actually saw that few files were lost
only once - did rpm -Va, and reinstalled the package.
:~>We sometimes lose power here with electrical storms.
:~>
:~>What situation does it have to be for it not to come back?
Good question. Maybe he thought "does not automatically come back again,
which is something you will see every time fsck finds a problem which
COULD lead to loss of some data, and refuses to work non-interactively.
Btw: with onset of new yournaling filesystems (ReiserFS, ext3), this
will soon be a non-issue anyway.
:~>> As much as I dislike Windows, I can always count on Windows
:~>> coming back from this kind of situation. It will complain, run
:~>> scandisk, and come back up. You might have some application
:~>> files corrupted, but at least the OS will run.
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