That's normally not a problem, as modern hard disks park the head automatically when the power is cut. Have you experienced data corruption or similar symptoms, at all? Do the filesystems on the drive get checked (fsck) regularly during bootup? I'd suggest installing smartmontools in order to find out if there's anything wrong with the disk.
-- HDD unsafe shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/68565 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
