Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:35 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have a Centos installed on a Hitachi 2.5" drive that shuts off really
quickly, it seems.
So every 30 sec, the drive makes the sound of an access activity. I
have looked trying to find what might be being updated. Swap drive
usage is 0 bytes. No activity in /var/log. What might it be and can I
do anything to lessen the drive access (improve battery life)?
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don't use a journalled filesystem (ext3)
there is a bit to be said about that for a notebook. Particularly if
you separate /home to its own partition. I mean why is /boot a ext3
partition in Centos install? Why not ext2. Perhaps / could be too.
but would you want to put /var/log on a journalling partition? I guess
there have been flames all over the place on these default decisions.
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