Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:35 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> I have a Centos installed on a Hitachi 2.5" drive that shuts off really >> quickly, it seems. >> >> So every 30 sec, the drive makes the sound of an access activity. I >> have looked trying to find what might be being updated. Swap drive >> usage is 0 bytes. No activity in /var/log. What might it be and can I >> do anything to lessen the drive access (improve battery life)? >> > ---- > don't use a journalled filesystem (ext3) there is a bit to be said about that for a notebook. Particularly if you separate /home to its own partition. I mean why is /boot a ext3 partition in Centos install? Why not ext2. Perhaps / could be too. but would you want to put /var/log on a journalling partition? I guess there have been flames all over the place on these default decisions.