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  • This is a good expl. of why you have to differentiate. And in fact you say there are different ways tu shut down a system, and to store the settings as configurations...AND when you think of kexec . I recommend a technical condensation of your answer. sessions, dameons, init/initscripts. NOT the details! The precise terminolgy with definitions, explanations and examples. Commented Oct 16, 2019 at 10:40
  • Even systemd's initrd at shutdown is just a detail. Just define what a "clean" shutdown is, how to make one. If you have e.g. a DATABASE running. Commented Oct 16, 2019 at 10:42