[TriLUG] How to prevent? "fsck died with exit status 4"

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Ken MacKenzie wrote:

> Fact is for running Ardour to record audio an external drive is a must for
> a laptop.  Ardour does not cooperate well when the OS and application live
> on the same physical drive as the recording target.  A different partition
> alone won't do it.  It literally needs a different physical medium.

I hadn't thought about this.

This used to be called the spindle contention problem back when disks were much 
slower. I haven't heard about it since disks got fast, except for databases. I 
guess if you need fast, the application needs its own disk/spindle.

Joe

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