On your laptop, mount your partition(s) with noatime, this reduces greatly HDD activity for ext3 fs.
Also, that guy is working on something from rhe kernel level that will allow the HD to power down on a ext3 fs, but as of 6 months ago, this messed with the "sync" command so that was problematic. Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:47, David Goodenough wrote: >> On Monday 18 November 2002 12:49, martin f krafft wrote: >> > also sprach David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> [2002.11.18.1314 +0100]: >> > > Are you running ext3, because if you are it is the journaling code >> > > that is causing this, it runs every 5 seconds. >> > >> > In fact, I am. Thanks. On another day I might have figured that out >> > myself ;^> >> > This is annoying... >> >> There is some work being done (by Andrew Morton I think) to get around >> this problem, but generally using a journaling file system on a laptop >> is a Bad Idea (TM). I think some of what he has been doing appears in > >Because of battery drain? > -- That's "angle" as in geometry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
