On Mon, 11 May 1998, Thomas F. Maher, Jr. wrote:
> What happens if you do shut off Linux by killing the power? What
> drastically goes wrong?
You run the risk of leaving the file system in an inconsistent state,
due to the possibility of cached data not getting written, or (worse)
being in the middle of a write. In addition, temporary files that
don't get removed may interfere with future operation.
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