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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 10:00:47 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        Benjamin Keating <motionsiren@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tuning Hard Disks
Message-ID:  <4292ED3F.8030603@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050524055216.GA16954@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <781e2bc0050523111214a8ff5@mail.gmail.com>	<20050523205601.GA11447@slackbox.xs4all.nl>	<781e2bc0050523144733827b78@mail.gmail.com> <20050524055216.GA16954@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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Roland Smith wrote:

>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote:
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>>Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn
>>about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I
>>didn't see it mention them.
>>    
>>
>
>I came across one of the control programs in a manual page, and then I
>used ls to look for others:
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>
Another useful command is "man -k" e.g.

man -k control

and if you're not a C programmer

man -k control | egrep -v '(3)' | less

Or even "locate control"

--Alex




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