Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list