On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:44:28AM -0300, Andris Delfino wrote:
> What I'm trying to ask is this: if a user turns on the computer, and
> can't log in, is it safe to power off the computer without using halt,
> or shutdown, (ie. pressing the power off button)?
As pointed out, no, but you might get away with it if the system is not
doing anything at the time (like, no daemons running or at least not
acting on anything).
You'll have to fsck in any case, and might lose data if it's currently
being worked on.
Joachim
