Is linux shutdown process insecure and harmful for the hardware?

>>59099250
You could manually unmount your external hard drive before shutting down if you're that concerned about it, but it shouldn't be an issue

>>59099250
The operating system itself is on the external drive which makes this an issue.

>>59099384
meant for the>>59099297

>>59099384
Don't do this.

>>59099437
Care to elaborate?

>>59099250
It is clearing the tmp files. Just put it in ram disk or on an ssd.

>>59099463
no, do it, it's fine

>>59099250
>What can I do to make linux automatically dismount my hardware before shutting the system down?
That's standard behavior on most distros if not all of them.

>>59101588
>dismount my hardware before shutting the system down
You don't need to do that.

>>59099250
any system, be it using linux, windows or whatever, can become corrupted during a power failure. current file systems do a great job avoiding that with journaling. i wouldnt worry much about it but you can execute
>sync
on a terminal, this will write all pending change onto all mounted partitons. after running this you can literally pull the cord without affecting the hdd data (although sudden power cuts like that can induce hardware failures)

"dismount" and "spindown" are two different things
you can safely dismount without spinning down
not all usb drives support passing through the command for spinning down to the hdd itself

if your drive does support being told to spin down, you could set your system up to spin down your external hdd before powering off