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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

>And I could exit simply by pressing the off button.

Well, you can, but it's my understanding that this is not a good plan.

Corrupting the filesystem obviously won't be a problem as you are running off
a ramdisk, but by powering the PC off rather than using shutdown, you stop
everything dead.  I believe it is possible to cause all sorts of nasties that
way - including nobbling your hardware.  Also, you give clients connected to 
it
no chance to log off cleanly.

For a server, I would recommend shutdown -h 60 or somesuch, so
a) clients have a chance to disconnect cleanly
b) everything is cleaned up properly (network connections, etc)

Also, shutting down linux properly is a good habit to get into! On a hard
disk version of linux I once had to completely reinstall after a crash forced
me to power off, and it trashed my root partition so badly that fsck couldn't
fix it!

Just a word to the wise


Ian