[Gllug] Hard drive spindown

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On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Martin A. Brooks yowled:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 09:54, Richard Jones wrote:
>> There are lots of processes running on this machine. Is there a tool I
>> can use to see which one is writing to the disk?
> 
> You'll need to use noflushd.

And mount things with noatime (particularly whatever fs /dev is on).

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