Using Init 0 to shutdown computer
Okay so i have ubuntu 10.10 and for some reason if i shutdown with the shutdown button in the top corner under power or shutdown -h now or shutdown now these things end up restarting my computer.
Will it damage my computer like the hardware, operating system, etc if i use sudo init 0 to shutdown all the time, because that shudown(restart) crap makes my windows to start acting strange after a few times and i think it could end up damaging my hardware so i have decided to use init 0 instead.
Let me know thanks! I really don't like unity(11.04) or Gnome3(11.10) so id rather stay at 10.10 i am enjoying it!
32 Answers
Using init 0 shouldn't harm the system itself, as it should run through all the necessary stuff. But you should make sure that you manually exit out of all your apps first. The safest thing would be to log out, then hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to log in on the console and shut down from there.
For a single user / desktop system you should not notice any differences.
From the shutdown man page: It prevents further logins and notifies currently logged in users before changing the runlevel.
See man shutdown for more details
