On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Luke Rosenthal wrote: > I know there's the appropriate commands to do it, but are they risky? If > a drive's not mounted, but powered off, it should present no problems or > lock up the OS, correct? Have a look at noflushd. I've been using it for years with good results in PCs that don't need their disks on all the time (eg. laptops). (and even recently in my home servers with RAID1 sets) Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html