I wouldn't advise other people doing this as the filesystem can get seriously broken under certain circumstances. For example, on a Linux laptop with the hard-

I wouldn't advise other people doing this as the filesystem can get seriously broken under certain circumstances. For example, on a Linux laptop with the hard-drive encrypted with dm-crypt, I simply lost access to my drive due to repeated hard reboots. I don't know if I could have recovered my data from it or not, but after repeated attempts of googling for the error message and following advice I simply gave up and later reinstalled everything from scratch (it's a good thing I constantly make backups ;-)). On Linux REISUB has been my friend.