<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Joshua O'Leary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joshua.oleary@btinternet.com" target="_blank">joshua.oleary@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
Just wondering is it a good idea to leave 'Spin down hard disks' on in power manager settings, battery power. Obviously it would save a bit of power, but would it shorten the life of the hard disk due to increased starting/stopping?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Joshua<br></font></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Actually, it can crash the operating system if the kernel happens to try to write to swap space or needs to write buffers to disk, potentially leaving a corrupted file-system. Might not happen as much now with ext3 and ext4, but still... If you are going to try that, then a) don't use swap and b) run 'sync;sync' before the hard drives are spun down.<br>
<br> -Arcege<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What comes after the O-nut?<br>The P-nut<br>What comes after the P-nut?<br>
The elephant<br> <i>joke told by my sons</i><br></span></div><br>
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