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After using like 5 different Raspberry Pi's with multiple setups, OS, SD cards, and methods of restarting, I had found I was restarting and shutting down wrong and frequently destroying or losing files that were recently open or near to others in the data structure. I lost my entire first setup after 40 or so hours of learning and work due to using '''init 6''' to restart the pi.
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You will find people that will tell you this is safe. They are correct-- most of the time. You can use the '''reboot''' command also but it does the same thing and is also unsafe.

My solution was to create a restart script that stops any services I can, then kills any running programs that could interfere with my file system if forced to shutdown too early, then waits 15 seconds and uses the shutdown command after the pause. I made this script reboot.sh to avoid data corruption on my pi (it happened 4 or 5 times!). Feel free to copy and modify to your taste.

 echo "Beginning forced shutdown script"
 #unmount my network share (cifs)
 umount -f /jane
 #cron triggers scripts all the time on my setup, kill it!
 service cron stop
 ##service running my python buttons listen script
 service pybuttons stop
 killall python
 service mpd stop
 service ntp stop
 service alsa-utils stop
 service networking stop
 service ssh stop
 killall fbi
 killall samba
 killall mpd
 killall mpc
 killall vim
 killall vi
 killall omxplayer
 killall sftp-server
 killall python
 #unmount my network share (cifs) again just in case!
 umount -f /jane
 sleep 15
 shutdown -h -r now