Hello for noise reasons I am interrested aswell. I'd like to turn of all drive exept the drive where / is. Would umount shutdown a drive (if all partitions of a drive are umounted)?
Thanks Neil On 10/30/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 30 2007 14:27, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > >> Aaron Kulkis schrieb: > >> In reply on 13 June 2007 Henning Paul wrote > >> > >> This [Linux without harddisk] is possible indeed.... > >> Here in our institute we do similar things. All > >> computers run without hard disk. > > > > That's a diskless workstation, running off of > > other disk drives on a file server which is completely > > different. > > > > We were doing that with Sun workstations at Purdue > > in the 1980's. But performance sucks. > > > > > > > >> And he asserted that 1 Gb RAM would be sufficient for running two or > >> three applications like Firefox or Thunderbird in a ramdisk. > > > > Depends on how the user actually uses those applications. > > > > I often open several web pages, but don't get around > > to reading them until days later....meanwhile, still > > doing all of the other web-browsing activity that I > > would still be doing otherwise. > > > > I have 2 GB on my laptop, and I'm using another 1 GB > > of swap right now. > > > > > >> > >> The corresponding key word for having a kernel _not_ > >> using the hd regularly is 'laptopmode'. I do hope that there are people > >> here in this group knowing a bit more about that than either you or me. > > I know as much that repeatedly spinning it up and down is not good either. > So I better let it run and tune it so that it does not do too much activity. > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
