To be more specific, forcing a linux system may not allow it to sync the filesystem metadata and data cache copy with the disk copy, so there may be damage to the filesystems after a force. If you allow a graceful shutdown, the filesystems are synced, greatly reducing the exposure to file system corruption.
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