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Re: df spools up hard drive
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Tim Waugh |
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Re: df spools up hard drive |
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Sun, 8 Aug 2004 22:19:51 +0100 |
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On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:51:13AM -0700, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> whenever I'm curious how much diskspace I have left, I run df... well, The
> drives spin up, and I'd rather not wait, and I'd rather not wear out my
> drives, and I'd rather not have the large power suck all at once...
Try 'df --no-sync'.
> It's probably a kernel issue... but I found this email address first...
If --no-sync doesn't help, then yes.
Tim.
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