On Friday 13 April 2007 20:35, Neil Walker wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk > > My network server has been doing a daily "emerge --sync" for 4 years > now. Hasn't died yet. FWIW, simply running Windows puts far more strain > on the HD than doing a daily sync in Gentoo ever will. Just watch the HD > LED on a Windows system that isn't even doing anything sometime.
It usually is doing something: scanning the drives for viruses using some abominable bloatware virus scanner application; indexing files (like updatedb in Linux); defraging the drives when the screen saver kicks in. -- Regards, Mick
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