linux.gentoo.user

Liviu Andronic wrote:

> Are there any potential harms to the hardware / system in case one
> tends to abuse (i.e. use more often than necessary) of this command?

You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. Because of
this, filesystem and/or applications might get corrupt (eg. think
of a database, which was in the middle of writing to some of
its tables).

> It's so often so tempting to shut down your system fast.

Yeah, it sure is :)

Michael

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