NSA320 - rootfs on sata1 : Move logging to usb drive

After a couple weeks of use I am happy with my current setup having rootfs on the first internal hard drive. I never got the script in the wiki to work OK for shutting down using the power button alone, but was able to get "shutdown now" working using a combination of both the power and the copy/sync button which is better for me.

Our NSA320 is a media server that is not used much these days.


If I move /var/log to an ext3 formatted usb drive will it reduce the sata drive access and allow it to sleep after long periods of inactivity?
I know this might not be as good as wake on demand or moving the rootfs to a usb drive.

thanks to all

Joe,

> If I move /var/log to an ext3 formatted usb
> drive will it reduce the sata drive access and
> allow it to sleep after long periods of
> inactivity?

It's hard to completely eliminate all disk activity on the rootfs. Even with /var/log mounted on another disk, there might be read access to the rootfs while the system is running. You could try, but it's not worth it, IMO.

-bodhi
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