Laptop: Hard drive wakes up every 5-10 seconds

[Robert Moskowitz]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 07:46 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> Also consider changing /boot to ext2....
>>     
>
> Not sure what that's going to gain.  How often do you have to change the
> contents of /boot?  It's mostly treated as read-only, and only used when
> you boot it up.  Short of doing kernel updates, you rarely have to do
> anything with it.  And other than for that (kernel updates), you rarely
> even need to have it mounted post bootup.

So you avoid whatever occational journalling entries occur for the 
general purpose of journalling.  Yeah it probably is all during startup 
and shutdown.