From: Joshua Rogers <joshuarogers@hopper.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Noflushd usage
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:53:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406BA04F.3060503@hopper.net> (raw)
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?
My first drive is /dev/hda. It contains Windows 2000 on an NTFS
partition, Windows 98 on Fat32, Lycoris (can't remember the fs) and
Debian (on ReiserFS). I don't mind this drive, it's quiet and contains
only the OSes.
My other drive is /dev/hdb. It is the 100Gb Drive. It consists of 5
partitions, all of which are of type Fat32. My computer is only about 3
feet from my bed, so this drive would definately keep me up. Either
that or have to keep shutdown every night.
Also, when I shutdown, if there is something ready to write to the
drive, will it save, or will the kernel just ignore it.
I'm running linux kernel 2.6.4, with ACPI enabled. It's a custom
kernel, so if I need to make some modifications, I will.
I'm going to be trying this on my Debian Install. I know I can't make
/dev/hda spin down (because of the ReiserFS), but I would like to be
able to spin down /dev/hdb (containing only FAT32 partitions.)
Oh, one last thing (sorry), I don't know if this has anything to do with
it, but when I type 'acpi' at konsole it responds "No support for device
type: battery". Is this important? I'm running a desktop, so I'm not
using a battery to power the system.
Thanks and sorry for the length of the post.
Joshua Rogers
-
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
next reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-01 4:53 Joshua Rogers [this message]
2004-04-01 15:23 ` Noflushd usage Matthew Frederico
2004-04-01 16:03 ` chuck gelm
2004-04-01 19:30 ` pa3gcu
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=406BA04F.3060503@hopper.net \
--to=joshuarogers@hopper.net \
--cc=linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.