On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, snarlydwarf < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Siegfried Löffler;566396 Wrote: > Linux has nothing to do with it. > > Yanking power from ANY drive that is potentially being written to is > bad. > That's true - but as in general I do know when I would write, I could live with that. Shutting down an ext2 fs without doing shutdown would not be good at all. Yes you are in theory right and even for a VFAT filesystem you'd better shut down - however, FAT file systems are less fragile, in the old DOS days there was no shutdown... So yes, Linux HAS something to do with that. Or better: Any multitasking OS ... Not that I would now say we should build a touch version on MS-DOS... but still it's an unsolved issue. ( A potential solution could be to mount all FS in Read Only and only have a /tmp in read write that is reformatted at every boot.) Anyhow: The point is, there is no good solution so far for powering the stuff fully down. The power cord for 5$ certainly is not a good solution. So I will probably just leave it switched on. And I can live with that if I can manage to make the USB drive on the Touch work. However, getting it to work is a nightmare with all these bugs in the scanner, memory limitations, drives getting mounted read-only. I already spent several evenings, and for the time being the only working solution I have is to have my PC running as server. And that's really really frustrating.-- Siegfried Löffler * http://dg1sek.home.pages.de * Tel1 +33 95173 4711 * Tel2: +49 7145 969098 * Fax +33 95673 4711
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