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Re: Hard disk won't spin down; what's accessing it?



On Fri, 2 May 2003 20:44:29 -0700
Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com> wrote:

> I was told that by mounting the ext3 partitions with the "noatime"
> option, the disk access every "five" seconds doesn't happen.  It seems
> to work for me.  My disk spins down using noflushd and stays down for
> hours when not in use.
> 
> I had to make some changes to exim as well so that it doesn't do queue
> runs every few minutes.

Good, thank you for letting us know.

Kevin



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