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Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Are there any potential harms to the hardware / system in case one |
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> tends to abuse (i.e. use more often than necessary) of this command? |
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You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. Because of |
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this, filesystem and/or applications might get corrupt (eg. think |
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of a database, which was in the middle of writing to some of |
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its tables). |
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> It's so often so tempting to shut down your system fast. |
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Yeah, it sure is :) |
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Michael |
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