update-manager --no-focus-on-map ??
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Sat Jan 2 10:14:27 UTC 2016
Liam Proven wrote:
> On 1 January 2016 at 19:00, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com>
wrote:
> > rebooting after each upgrade at least makes the hard disk drives
> > spin
> > down and up, in other words it causes unloading and loading the
> > heads
> > and this will shorten the lifetime of hard disk drives
>
> You are *really* stretching the point there. I do not believe that you
> could demonstrate this as a real issue with any amount of
> instrumentation or the finest possible precision of measurement.
The allegation that a reboot spins down the disk isn't even true. I have
tested it with two machines and on both a reboot doesn't increase the
load cycle count, i.e. the disk doesn't spin down.
Nils
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