On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Josh Hope wrote:

> >Uh, yes, please do.  Sorry I didn't make that clearer :-)
> 
> Sorry. I'll get that info as soon as I can...
> 
> >Hmmm...perhaps something was corrupted as a result of the power outage?
> >You have done a full fsck, haven't you?
> 
> Of course! I always fsck -p then reboot -n after a power outage or force 
> restart, as I should :) If it was corruption, why would it take 6 days to 
> show up? I find that extremely strange in itself :) But I suppose it is 
> possible...
> 

Please take this as a question from an inexperienced sysad and not an
accusation, but i was curious what reboot -n does, looked it up, and the
man page sez:

     -n      If the -n option is specified, the file system cache is not
             flushed.  This option should probably not be used.

What is the raison d'etre for reboot -n ?

Thanks,

-Adrian