Re: How to kill X?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

cr wrote:

> I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of recently is 
> sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault.   Either way, it 
> has the same effect of discombobulating my hard drive so I have to do a lot 
> of fscking on startup again.    Occasionally this completely munges my X 
> setup.

You might consider converting your partitions to ext3. It's quite easy.

# tune2fs -j /
# tune2fs -j /home
# tune2fs -h /other_partitions_you_want_to_convert

Then edit /etc/fstab and change the "ext2" to "ext3" for each partition 
on which you enabled a journal and reboot or remount those partitions. 
The conversion only takes a few tens of seconds for each partition, and 
you can always "back out" by simply changing your /etc/fstab back to 
"ext2" and/or remounting as ext2 instead of ext3.

This of course won't completely protect against file system corruption 
or the running of fsck, but it helps in my opinion.

--
Kent