Re: [CentOS] OT: Precautions before draining laptop battery?

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Paul Heinlein wrote:

Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:44:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Heinlein heinlein@madboa.com Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Precautions before draining laptop battery?

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, itayf@nospammail.net wrote:

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I have found some advice on the web regarding battery draining, but no linux-specific information. Are there some steps to be taken to protect the harddrive? Unmounting file-systems?

Boot a Live CD, umount any mounted filesystems, then run the battery down.

Ah - so obvious and simple...

Thanks, Itay