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Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:00:47 +0100
From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: Tuning Hard Disks
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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.
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>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