Re: df spools up hard drive

Aaron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's probably a kernel issue... I'm afraid you're right. It's a file system issue, actually. Perhaps you can send your suggestions to whoever's responsible for your file system. For example, if they are ext3 file systems you might try

Re: Portability issue

DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > expr substr "x$string" $tmpindex 1 > > If I need to translate this in a pattern matching expression, I > must calculate the number of 'dots', because I'm not sure if the > '{N}' syntax (to match exactly '{N}' times) is portable enough. You're right t

df spools up hard drive

I know some may not think that this is a bug, but I really, really don't like having my hard drive spin up, just to check data that could have been written into a cache or something when the hard drive went to sleep. My KDE pauses as Konqueror spins up sleeping hard drives... and it really b

Re: Portability issue

Hi Paul :) * Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > I would like to know (if you have such information, of course) which > > 'expr's out there support 'substr' expressions in addition to the > > GNU coreutils one, of course. > Sorry, haven't a clue. Well, thanks anyway :) > But you