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Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?



Thanks, that did the trick!

Manon Metten wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Merciadri Luca
> <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>
>
>   
>> I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as
>> you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite
>> fast HDDs, etc. They're all on the same partition. I have disabled
>> previewing, or thumbnails.
>>
>> How can I do to make this process faster?
>>     
>
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> If you're using ext2/ext3, turning off dir/file access time might help.
> Edit /etc/fstab and add noatime,nodiratime on the appropriate line,
> like in the example below:
>
> /dev/hdb2   /home   ext3   defaults,noatime,nodiratime   0   2
>
> Manon.
>
>
>   


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