On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 07:15:53PM -0400, Mark Basil wrote:
> I recently transfered my /usr folder to it's own partition, which happens to
> be on a different physical drive than /. But there's no problem there, it
> just brought me to find something else. The new hard drive that I'm using
> is an ultra2 scsi Seagate 4.5 Gig....which leads to me to the question:
> Does LINUX somehow cache a hard disk like it does a floppy..maybe?? I don't
> know, but I deleted the entire contents of a directory, and heard nothing
> from the hard disk, yet the directory was empty...there was a substantial
> amount of data there, at least 2 Megs. Then, over the next 5 or so minutes,
> it would sputter here and there? Does this sound correct?
Sounds normal to me. And yes, Linux tends to use available memory for
caching. Floppy, HDD, makes no difference really.
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Hal B
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