On 19 January 2018 at 09:14, Huge huge@huge.org.uk wrote:
I've been powering off my Linux Smoothwall firewall every night for years without any problem. I wouldn't worry about it.
I have had the opposite experience.
I suspect that in my case it's not the occasional power cycle, its further power cycles during boot (ie when it might be repairing the filesystem from a previous power cycle). It's speculation - I don't have control over the power - but corrupt filesystems have hit me enough times that working around them has justified quite a lot of time spent on it.
The advantage I suspect you have is that if you have a problem you can get to it with keyboard/mouse/monitor to investigate; I usually don't have that option, it's either working or it isn't. Even if all this effort does is point the finger at a different likely culprit then it's served its purpose.