Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!delluk!tim From: tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: How do I disable FFS? Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 13:45:58 GMT References: <1110@bcs800.UUCP> Sender: usenet@delluk.uucp (Usenet posting login) Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Bracknell, UK Lines: 21 In <1110@bcs800.UUCP> tima@bcs800.UUCP (Tim Addington) writes: >I recently upgraded my system to a 650 Meg SCSI drive. My question is >is there anyway to speed up the mounting and dismounting of the various >filesystems. It is taking about 10 minutes now to bring up and shut down >the system. Is this due to the Fast File System or the High Performance >Disk Driver or what. I would like to disable this while I am setting up the >system. Do you have everything on the root partition or do you have the drive partitioned more "normally". If you have one large partition, you will definitely see this. I know that in Dell UNIX (ISC derived), the slow mounting "problem" was fixed in version 1.1. Don't know if this helps ! Tim -- Tim Wright, Dell Computer Corp. (UK) | Email address Dell Computer Corp. (UK), Bracknell | Domain: tim@dell.co.uk Tel: +44-344-860456 | Uucp: ...!ukc!delluk!tim "What's the problem? You've got an IQ of six thousand, haven't you?"