On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:58:45 +0100
Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote:

> Nope. Doesn´t seem to help much.
> 
> How to turn it off, after turning it on?
> 
> deepdance:~> LANG=C mount -o remount,datacow / 
> mount: / not mounted already, or bad option

In debian you can disable syncing on per-process basis:
    http://packages.debian.org/sid/eatmydata

$ eatmydata apt-get install foo
$ eatmydata firefox
$ eatmydata liferea

makes things more bearable

HTH

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  Sergei

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