Re: syncing from magic sysreq key

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:41:01PM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> I think this might be a good feature to use, but I 
> wonder what's safer -- to sync and unmount the 
> filesystems or to just hit the big red button.

I've always preferred the sync and umount, if possible, and then run
fsck on the disk when convenient...

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