08-13-2008
i use fedora on my main system.
the one taht all my family uses.
i have a secondary system that is also runing fedora, but is a left over. it was "mine" and now is my syster pc. she didnt touch it cause is to lazy, but some day she is going to just format it and do something. i still dont know yet (and for my inmortal soul is gona be a gnu licensed OS)
and in my really old (500mghz cpentium3, 128mb of ram, savage 8mb onboard video card) i use gentoo.
this is my personal laptop. so it has fluxbox just because of some webpages dont work with links2 -g :P
oh, and some "movies" (ahem ahem) dont look ok with cacaxine
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readahead
readahead(8) System Manager's Manual readahead(8)
NAME
readahead - file preloader for boot process optimization
SYNOPSIS
readahead [options] <file-list> [another-file-list [...]]
DESCRIPTION
readahead is a files preloader designed to optimize the disk I/O during the boot process.
OPTIONS
-b, --build
build optimised files list only, without sorting.
-s, --sort
build and sort list of files only (implies -b).
-o, --output <file>
write sorted list of files to file.
-d, --dont-sort
preload files described by an already sorted files list.
-h, --help
print the usage information.
-v, --verbose
enable the verbose mode.
-t, --timing
report time spent on each operation.
-m, --maxsize <max size>
maximum size in KiB a file can be in order to be preloaded, default is 10240.
<file-list> [another-file-list [...]]
One or more files containing the list of files to be preloaded or sorted. The files list can be generated by readahead-collector(8).
FILES
/etc/default/readahead-fedora
SEE ALSO
readahead-collector(8), readahead(2),
AUTHORS
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec@klika.si>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
This manual page was written by Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
July 2011 readahead(8)