Yeah, they are gone, it's just that I didn't hear them get deleted--didn't
hear the disk do anything, and it was an instantaneous delete .... Oh well,
I'm not going to worry about this, I'm just happy I got the /usr remounted
on another disk. And another thing, completely off subject, shouldn't gnome
and enlightenment be installed to /usr/local ? I installed these by rpm and
they got put in /usr....and my /usr/local is almost completely empty.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jake McHenry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 10:43 PM
To: Mark Basil
Subject: Re: hard disk access
I've seen this many times, I've just learned to live with it. I guess
that's what it's doing. Using the onboard cache, just like windows * does.
Did you try restarting your box to see if the files were really gone?
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, 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?
>
>
> --Mark
>
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