Shutting of manually causes damage?
I was reading Introduction to Linux - hands on guide from the LDP. There was this line saying:
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I think the main issue is that if there is some data in buffer that has only been half written to a physical drive and you shut it off before it is all written, you will lose data. It could be a case of losing that file, or worse, corrupting the whole filesystem and losing all the data! When you tell a computer to shutdown, it will clear all the buffers and finish writting everything to disk before powering off.
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Is there any chance of damaging the hardware?
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The quote is alluding to ACPI systems where pressing the power button momentarily sends a signal to power down. So in that case you are executing the inittab's shutdown procedure which probably is "/sbin/shutdown -h now".
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