On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:58:37 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Sackman) said:
Matthew> Could I just ask, why do you want to enable spin down? Matthew> Hard discs consume the most power on start up. They also undergo the Matthew> greatest stress when spinning up. Therefore, if your disks keep having Matthew> to spin up, then you are actually not saving anywhere as much energy as Matthew> you suspect, and you are also reducing the life expectancy of your Matthew> disks. Well, that's also to reduce the noise of my box... When I'm working, it will spin down since I intensively use the disks, but I want to leave it on when I'm AFK, and reduce both power consumption and noise. Anyhow, thanks to you all for the tips... Here's what I've done (for anybody interested): - prefix all /var/log/... with a "-" in /etc/syslog.conf - apt-get installed and configured noflushd Thanks Tom :-) Cheers, -- Dominique Deleris http://potatoworld.tuxfamily.org
