Hard Drive

[Matt Graham]

From: Eric Shubert 
> On 12/04/2012 01:22 AM, Eric Allen wrote:
>> I can't get my hard drive to spin down, it runs continuously
> kjournald daemon writes pretty frequently to the disk. Perhaps that's 
> what's keeping your drive active. I've no idea how to tune that though 
> to write less frequently.

Which filesystem?  If these things are ext3, then one thing that might help is
to fiddle with the commit= option.  The default for ext3 is 5 seconds, so if
you're mounting it with the defaults, all the filesystems will commit their
metadata every 5 seconds.  This leads to more disk I/O than is usually
necessary.  commit=600 (10 minutes) would probably work reasonably well.

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