Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Check disk write-caching


I'm investigating the performance of file systems and found myself needing to check if write-caching was enabled for my disk.
hdparm -W /dev/sda
To turn off write-caching, do
hdparm -W0 /dev/sda


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