On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:09:58PM +0300, Panagiotis G. Labropoulos wrote:
> minutes. The UPS does not communicate with the server so it cannot shutdown
> properly. The power supply of the system has a two position switch so that
> the system boots up when power is restored. Because I cannot always run fsck
> manually, I would like to force fsck on all files systems at boot time,
> until restoration of the facilities is through.

When a storm comes through my area I have scripts that remount my
filesystems. Some filesystems go read-only, and some go sync. This
minimizes my risk of data loss in the event the power goes out. 

That's the idea, anyway. 
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"A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of
invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor ...
in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser ... in an irregular way
fascinating to cats,..." -- US patent 5443036, "Method of exercising a cat"