.\" Copyright (C) 2009 Raphael Geissert .\" .\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, .\" or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but .\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with the Debian GNU/Linux system; if not, write to the Free .\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA .\" 02111-1307 USA .TH readahead "8" "July 2011" .SH NAME readahead \- file preloader for boot process optimization .SH SYNOPSIS readahead [options] [another-file-list [...]] .SH DESCRIPTION .B readahead is a files preloader designed to optimize the disk I/O during the boot process. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B -b, --build build optimised files list only, without sorting. .TP .B -s, --sort build and sort list of files only (implies \-b). .TP .B -o, --output write sorted list of files to \fIfile\fP. .TP .B -d, --dont-sort preload files described by an already sorted files list. .TP .B -h, --help print the usage information. .TP .B -v, --verbose enable the verbose mode. .TP .B -t, --timing report time spent on each operation. .TP .B -m, --maxsize maximum size in KiB a file can be in order to be preloaded, default is \fI10240\fP. .TP .B [another-file-list [...]] One or more files containing the list of files to be preloaded or sorted. The files list can be generated by readahead-collector(8). .SH FILES .TP .I /etc/default/readahead-fedora .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR readahead-collector (8), .BR readahead (2), .SH AUTHORS .TP Arjan van de Ven , Ziga Mahkovec , Karel Zak , .PP This manual page was written by Raphael Geissert .nh