I recall back in the day when you had finer control over the hard disks. You could low-level format. You could explicitly park the heads. But, we didn't have journalling filesystems either.
You may still lose data, but with a decent filesystem, it will not come back on in a scrambled state despite pulling the power on it. One of the reasons I wish tux3 will come to fruition, is that it's not even journalled, yet it provides the same benefit--w/o having to play any logs back at all--it's just *there*, and so's a completely consistent version of the data. Very clever. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */