Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Rob <> | Subject | Re: turning off harddisk and listen music from ramdisk under Linux | Date | Sun, 2 Nov 2003 04:29:13 -0500 |
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for turning off hard drive after a song load:
hdparm -Y /dev/hdX
for a ramdisk:
mount -t tmpfs none /mnt/ramdisk
or add this to /etc/fstab:
none /tmp/jack tmpfs defaults 0 0
On Sunday 02 November 2003 05:04 pm, Martin Wierich wrote: > Hi guys, > > I want to use a PC to listen mp3-music. Therefore I have to buy a new > harddisk. > I use Linux and I want to turn off all harddisks while listening, > because > they are so noisy. My plan is to let some homegrown software regularly > copy the music data > from a harddisk to a ramdisk and to turn off the harddisk then. Then I > would > listen from the ramdisk. > > My questions: > - is this possible? > - how do I turn off a harddisk from software under Linux? > - do I have to buy a special harddisk? > - how does linux react on turning off all harddisks? Can > I cut away any superfluous stuff like CRON and let Linux > also run on a ramdisk? Or do I need some special embedded > Linux distribution? > - or is there a readymade solution? > > There are the following circumstances: > - for religious reasons I only use _old_ hardware (64MB, 100Mhz) > - I am planning to have a boot partition just for the sole > purpose of listening to music > - I want to keep this boot partition small: no X windows stuff, > no network and so on. The system should start up very > fast. > - I have a SuSE Linux distribution on CD Rom. I only have a 56K > modem. I don't want to download software for hours. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > cheers > > Martin
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