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kmp

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Registered: 2008-03-29

Posts: 11

Disk spins too intensive occasionally

When I do some thing that uses disk, eg. open menu for first time (loading graphics) or launch program first time disk spins for about a second very loudly. I am worried about my disk lifetime.

I installed and configured everything I found in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop . Before "hdparm -B 255 "I had those spins every 20 seconds or so, now it's just from time to time.

On Windows and Ubuntu disk doesn't spin so loudly.

I have compal fl90.

Last edited by kmp (2009-10-01 05:32:57)

tomd123

Developer

Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 565

Re: Disk spins too intensive occasionally

don't forget to add, noatime, nodiratime into fstab for your hd partitions

kmp

Member

Registered: 2008-03-29

Posts: 11

Re: Disk spins too intensive occasionally

Thank you! Lack of noadirtime in fstab was an issue. I just followed wiki, there was only noatime suggestion.

andreamer

Member

Registered: 2009-08-11

Posts: 41

Re: Disk spins too intensive occasionally

please, add it to the wiki if you found it useful.

EDIT: as i read here http://lwn.net/Articles/244941/ it shouldn't be neccesary because noatime implies nodiratime (it's a superset).

Last edited by andreamer (2009-09-30 18:53:22)