Re: Kill Power vs. Clean Shutdown

[Stephen Samuel <samnospam@bcgreen.com>]

Depends on whether or not you have swap. If you do, there is a SMALL 
possibility that you could power down during a write to the swap 
artition and that you would get a spurious write that could trash the 
partition data -- or even real data.

I usually use ''poweroff -f'  It takes all of about 3-10 seconds with 
Knoppix 5.0.1, and ensures that there
are no spurious writes.



Tim Ross wrote:
> If you're running the Live CD and don't have any external devices 
> mounted, can you power the machine down with the on/off button rather 
> than do a clean shutdown without hurting anything?
>
> Since we're dealing with a RAM disk, I'd think nothing would get 
> "hurt" by killing the power (and it would be faster)...

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