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The last line... sadly it doesn't have the same feeling when it is a virtual machine
– Burgi
Commented Mar 9, 2016 at 23:13
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@Burgi "I am the baron of electricty!!!*" - fixed?
– corsiKa
Commented Mar 9, 2016 at 23:40
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@Burgi "I am the king of bits!!!"
– hBy2Py
Commented Mar 10, 2016 at 4:42
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As to the hardware, my understanding is that pulling the power will cause a hard drive to do an "emergency park". While this normally prevents the drive from being damaged, hard drives are rated for a much smaller number of emergency parks than of regular (commanded) parks, so the drive may wear out more quickly.
– Nate Eldredge
Commented Mar 10, 2016 at 5:02
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On a modern, journaled filesystem, you will not have to reinstall the OS under normal circumstances. But you could plausibly lose lots of application data that you thought you saved to disk.
– Kevin
Commented Mar 10, 2016 at 5:10

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