From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Frederico Subject: Re: Noflushd usage Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:23:15 -0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1080832995.4645.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <406BA04F.3060503@hopper.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <406BA04F.3060503@hopper.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joshua Rogers Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:53, Joshua Rogers wrote: > Slightly curious here. I have fairly new computer here that I got from > walmart.com maybe 4 months ago. I decided to install linux and windows > on it. Ok. I installed a 100Gb harddrive into the computer that has > all my data on it. And the drive sounds like a jet plane. > > How can I (or can I not) make noflushd turn off the second hard drive > after about 15 minutes? I believe "hdparm" is the command you are looking for. something like: "hdparm -s 30 /dev/hdb" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs