hard disk spin down

[pol]

Mario Vukelic wrote
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 23:26 +0200, pol wrote:
>> My question is: is there a way to force processes not to read and write
>> so often?
>> Alternatively, is it safe disabling the disk spin down?
> Do you use the default file system, ext3, or do you use reiserfs? What's
> the output of the mount command in a terminal?

It is ext3

> 

> hdparm is only running briefly on boot. It sets the settings that are
> specified in /etc/hdparm.conf, then exits


thanks

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Pol