This is going to reduce the life time of my hard disk by half, so normal or not, in init/upstart or not, this is a bug.
Note that I checked and this does not happen on at least one of my other computers. -- Hard disk stops and restarts on shut down https://launchpad.net/bugs/61763 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs