[lug] umount /dev/hda

[D. Stimits]

Garett Shulman wrote:

> Hello Everybody, I have a progear tablet pc running linux. I use it more
> or less as a very cool X display. I don't really run any apps on the
> progear itself. The ram is never more than half full and the swap is
> never more than 0. However, the HD spins up and down every minute. I
> have tried noflushd. no luck. I would like to just unmount the hard
> drive and let linux exist completely in memory. Does anybody have any
> suggestions or know of any documents I might check out? Thanks a lot.
> -Garett


Possibly you're using a journalling filesystem, and it is flushing the 
logs for the journal. I'd start by checking the mount options for the 
filesystem type, relative to journal options.

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