> > When my thinkpad 760 ELD is on battery power, I would like the harddisk > to spin down quickly and stay spinned down for as long as possible. To > achieve this I turned off swap, changed the update command in > /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh to [ -x /sbin/update ] && update -s 900 -f 900 > and changed /etc/init.d/atd so at wakes up every 600 seconds. > > I also set the spindown time to 10 seconds using hdparm, but stil there > is harddisk activity several times a minute, even if I don't type and > there are no log messages. > What more can I do?
Add the "noatime" option to all the mounts in your /etc/fstab file, e.g.: /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults,noatime 0 2 Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
