Comments on: Surf the Web Faster by Disabling IPV6 in Ubuntu Linux http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/surf-the-web-faster-by-disabling-ipv6-in-ubuntu-linux/ Resources, help, how to's and tutorials for Ubuntu Linux users! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Bruce http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/surf-the-web-faster-by-disabling-ipv6-in-ubuntu-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Bruce Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:42:54 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/surf-the-web-faster-by-disabling-ipv6-in-ubuntu-linux/#comment-10 Another issue to improve speed it to change the Ubuntu journaling system to data=writeback system. * Open your Grub boot menu. sudo nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst * Look for the Defoptions and Altoptions and make them look like the entry below. # defoptions=quiet splash rootflags=data=writeback # altoptions=(recovery mode) single rootflags=data=writeback * You need to update your Grub since you have altered it. sudo update-grub * Now we are going to edit the Fstab because it will be expecting these options. sudo nano -w /etc/fstab * Now you are going to want to add the (data=writeback and noatime=0) flags to your hard drive. It might be a little confusing because of the new naming system. Look for the (,errors=remount-ro) and add it afterwards to make it look like our example. defaults,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback,noatime 0 * Now you tell your system to use them both. sudo tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback /dev/yourdrive Another issue to improve speed it to change the Ubuntu journaling system to data=writeback system.

* Open your Grub boot menu.

sudo nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst

* Look for the Defoptions and Altoptions and make them look like the entry below.

# defoptions=quiet splash rootflags=data=writeback
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single rootflags=data=writeback

* You need to update your Grub since you have altered it.

sudo update-grub

* Now we are going to edit the Fstab because it will be expecting these options.

sudo nano -w /etc/fstab

* Now you are going to want to add the (data=writeback and noatime=0) flags to your hard drive. It might be a little confusing because of the new naming system. Look for the (,errors=remount-ro) and add it afterwards to make it look like our example.

defaults,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback,noatime 0

* Now you tell your system to use them both.

sudo tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback /dev/yourdrive

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