cron shutdown corupted disk

[UNIX Guru Dude]

I added a call to shutdown into my root crontab.  Although it shutdown
the machine, when it came back up, it ran fsck.  Question is, why would
a call to shutdown from cron corrupt the disk?  Has anyone else experienced
this.  Has anyone else run shutdown from cron?  I may add a few syncs, prior
to the call, but certainly shutdown is doing that for me.  Any clues will
be greatly appreciated.

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