With some suggestions from these forums, I got my Mini-ITX box up and running a few months ago, running Ubuntu Edgy headless. I run SlimServer (of course!), got AlienBBC working, and set up some basic Samba shares so it can also act as a backup server. All this involved fairly intense activity over a short period of time and since then I have pretty much left it running. (Which is how it should be as far as I'm concerned!)
Having said that ... something has been niggling me. The HD activity light blinks every few seconds. It does this consistently, and since the box is running 24/7 I am getting a bit worried that the drive is being stressed more than it needs to be. I am not sure what is causing the activity but given that the box is not set up to do many things, SlimServer is an obvious suspect, as is the OS itself. Does anyone have any ideas about this? In general, I believe it is not possible for the main OS HD to actually power down but are there any techniques or tweaks to keep disk activity to a minimum both with SlimServer and Ubuntu? Thanks in advance for any tips. --Zoltan -- Zoltan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zoltan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9998 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39833 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
