On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:21:18 +0100, n952162 wrote: > (in fact, that's exactly the situation that I've been confronted with > and have turned to this mailing list to help me with: X locked up, my > power-button was unresponsive so I had to force it down (holding the > power key down for 30 seconds), and on reboot TWO filesystems had to be > rebuilt by fsck, with substantial loss of organization and of data > (despite both being ext3/4 journaling filesystems - I just don't > understand that!) )
Please don't top-post on this list.
Magic SysReq would probably have helped in those situations. ext3/4 only
journal metadata by default, you can specify a mount option to also
journal data but it impacts performance.
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