(Fstab syntax) you can speed up your file systems you know, just add the options below to your fstab entry for Ext3: noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1 for XFS: noatime,nodiratime,barrier for ReiserFS3: notail,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=flush http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/suse-102-ditching-reiserfs-as-it-default-fs/#comment-33493