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Originally Posted by TheDoc
You can unplug a unix machine from the wall, it doesn't mean shit. Unplug it, shut it off, shut it down, unix doesn't give two rats ass. How do you "carelessly" unplug a server? Do you kick the cord out of the wall?
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Erm, wrong. If you power down a unix box without unmounting properly, you will risk almost certain corruption of some files. If you're lucky, they'll be unimportant or reparable. Thats why fsck runs, and calls a fs "dirty" when you boot up the box next time.