converting user to linux

[Jeff Vian]

Ron Goulard wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 12:40, neil wrote:
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>>There's a good howto on linux laptop power saving here: 
>>http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO-19.html#ss19.7
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>>Turning off file update time stamps can be usefull too. Just can't 
>>remember how at this moment.
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>I'll check that out since I was looking more specifically at acpi
>related stuff.  
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>If it's the atime that you meant, I've already done that.  Just change
>the fstab entry for the partition in question from 'defaults' to
>'noatime' and either 'mount -o remount /$partition' or reboot.  Saves a
>little bit of drive access.
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>Ron
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I think that for the little bit of drive access you save, you give up 
the ability to do some scanning tracking of what is going on on your 
machine.. your choice.  ;-)
  

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