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[–] 15 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Just poweroff is fine. Why lose extra 2.5 seconds typing two words when one word will suffice?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (9 children)

    What?

    sync ; sync ; sync ; shutdown -h now
    

    Or nothing!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's traditional, it used to be done that way on old systems. It was done for extra luck I suppose.

    Nowadays, shutdown syncs as a matter of fact, and filesystems are much less brittle.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Before Linux had a shutdown command, you’d run β€œsync && sync && sync” then hit the power button.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I think doing just a poweroff might leave some services in an unclean state. I think systemctl poweroff make sure the services are shutdown cleanly before powering down.

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