[ale] Damage risk

[Wandered Inn]

Michael B Golden wrote:
> 
>         I quiet often find my mother at the computer in Windoze when I
> left the computer in Linux. I ask her how she shut it down, and she
> points to the switch. Ouch. Normally the computer has been left idle for
> a few minutes. At how much risk of data corruption am I?

You are at risk.  You should at the minimum enable ctl-alt-del, so that
she can reboot it safely.  If the 'switch' solution is applied enough
times, you will certainly lose something.

> 
> Slackware 3.5
> kernel 2.0.34
> UMSDOS file system
> 
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