Re: df spools up hard drive

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:51:13AM -0700, Aaron Peterson wrote: > whenever I'm curious how much diskspace I have left, I run df... well, The > drives spin up, and I'd rather not wait, and I'd rather not wear out my > drives, and I'd rather not have the large power suck all at once... Try 'df --

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

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