[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 at madboa.com>
> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Precautions before draining laptop battery?
> 
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, itayf at nospammail.net wrote:
>
>> 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