> I have a customer who runs an application on Linux. Despite my repeated
> admonitions not to do so, they just turn off the machine without doing a
> proper shutdown. This has caused some issues for me and for them. Is there
> any way to "harden" Linux against this sort of behavior? Something that will
> prevent loss of data? Anything? Thanks.
Besides JPs suggestion of ACPI (the best solution), you might also want to mount a
lot of stuff read-only and put /tmp and logs on a ramdisk.
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