Shutting down without halt is no big sin. If the power goes out, it's the same thing. Redhat simply recovers itself. At least that is my experience. On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Jared wrote: > Ok, like an idiot i've turned off my linux computer with out doing shutdown. > My friend did this, and got a root prompt after his file system was shown to > be bad. Assuming next time I try to boot into linux next time, and myne is > found to be bad, is there anything like scan disk that can fix it? Note I'm > runing red hat 9, and i don't want to reinstall. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Charlie Crawford