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Originally Posted by Ruskie_it
Yes, that's the reason I was wondering about it in the first hand.
The second reason was I am curious. 
So if you issue the "poweroff" command - maybe via Kterm - the kindle shuts down gracefully and stays off until you press the power button? |
Yes, whatever it does, it will do gracefully.
It has a prioritized, dependency aware, system initialization that also gets triggered for shutting down the system.
"shutdown -h ..." is the most general of the *nix commands -
The others mentioned are lower level hooks into it.
You can even go into the /sys tree, in the sub-tree about power management and force the specific end condition.
But yeah, it will not self-destruct.
To do that, you have to un-plug the battery while the indexer is still running.
