> Unless all of your desktop machines have UPSes, I'll have to call > bullshit on this one. Since laptops have their own batteries, they > don't have the power outage type shutdowns that desktops too. If your > suspending gives an unclean shutdown, then you're init scripts aren't > configured properly. What if you leave it in suspend too long and the battery dies? Not everyone has shiny new batteries... > It should definitely sync the hard drive before > suspending. Syncing the disk before suspend isn't the same thing as unmounting it cleanly. If the machine dies in suspend for whatever reason, you're still going to be sitting through a fsck on ext2 whether it was synced or not. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list