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Poweroff , damages hardware?

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Mar 15, 2026341 views

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So i've been using poweroff command to shutdown my computer at a specific hour. Is it okay for the hardware to do this (e.g hard drives)? Or should I use other system call?

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poweroff is the proper way to do this. shutdown -h is exactly equivalent in Debian/Ubuntu (and most other systems).

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