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		dkharrat on Sept 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous (Draft) An example where kill -9 can screw things up is killing a database process (e.g. MySQL, mongo, etc). Killing it with -9 will most likely lead to data corruption/loss, as the process might be in the middle of flushing to disk for example.

ryanpetrich on Sept 20, 2015 [–]

Any database that can't recover from kill -9 is not worth trusting your data with.

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