This has not been the first time I have tried, but it has been the first time it has worked. And the best of it, no Partition Magic or (qt)parted is needed, just pure old tune2fs, resize2fs and fdisk (read the man pages and backup everything as usual ).

Finally I have bought an UPS. Its the MGE Pulsar Ellipse 1200. I have chosen MGE because of their support to the open source community (mge opensource). You can connect up to four standard computers to this UPS, it’s perfect for my home network.

What I want to do is to be able to shut down [...]