I have an old Mac Mini where I’ve installed Opensuse 13.1 “minimal x system”. My goal is to install a plex media server and use the Mac Mini in my car to stream movies to the children’s ipads.
How can I avoid that the system becomes buggy when I shut down the car engine and the Mac Mini will be powered off without a proper shutdown procedure?
Ivan
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:06:02 +0000, eulaersivan wrote:
> I have an old Mac Mini where I’ve installed Opensuse 13.1 “minimal x
> system”. My goal is to install a plex media server and use the Mac Mini
> in my car to stream movies to the children’s ipads.
>
> How can I avoid that the system becomes buggy when I shut down the car
> engine and the Mac Mini will be powered off without a proper shutdown
> procedure?
It won’t become “buggy” (ie, it won’t have bugs introduced into the
system), but it may well become unstable.
A few options:
Mount the filesystems read-only, and have the logs written to a tmpfs
or ramdisk.
Use a battery backup of some sort to keep it running, then detect
that it’s on battery and do a clean shutdown.
Do a clean shutdown manually before you turn the car off.
Jim Henderson
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