On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:51:13AM -0700, Aaron Peterson wrote:

> whenever I'm curious how much diskspace I have left, I run df... well, The 
> drives spin up, and I'd rather not wait, and I'd rather not wear out my 
> drives, and I'd rather not have the large power suck all at once...

Try 'df --no-sync'.

> It's probably a kernel issue... but I found this email address first...

If --no-sync doesn't help, then yes.

Tim.
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