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Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2, desktop PC, disk being constantly written to. Any way to reduce it?
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:49:45 +0200 (CEST)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707011644180.5326@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Sunday 2007-07-01 at 15:33 +0300, Tero Pesonen wrote:

...

> > Don't forget log entries...
> 
> Yes, I also checked them, but none was flooded with data nor were there
> recurring warnings or errors or anything of particular interest.

Notice that simply by watching the log you may cause a periodic write 
operation: every read means a write of the access time. That's why it is 
important to dissable it.

For instance "tail -f file" causes continuous writes, but "tailf file" 
does not. This is documented somewhere.


> I would consider this mostly solved for as far as I dare to go without making
> anything too risky. I've used Linux since SuSE 8.2, so I should already know
> not to expect things to work as they do on Windows.

Still, letting the disks go to sleep is a good thing, IMO. This "should" 
work.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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