Hibernation

A tip for anyone using suspend-to-disk or "hibernation" or whatever you prefer to call it: If the system reboots but doesn't pick up the hibernate file (ie it reboots as if you never even hibernated in the first place) then you should either:

1. Delete the hibernate file immediately to prevent the system from rebooting it, or,

2. Don't make any changes to the file-system what-so-ever.

If you should find yourself rebooting into the hibernate file (if you ignored point 1 above) then you should turn your system off. You will do less damage with a hard, unclean shutdown than you will by syncing all your drives.