There's also the "laptop mode" tuning knob for the kernel, which is designed to help with such things. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7539
I think 'ext3' is a sensible choice. There's an argument for avoiding spinning down as it's the starting and stopping that puts all the wear on the bearings and motor. Stuart mflint wrote: > geamater;259240 Wrote: > >> mmm very interesting...could you tell us a bit more? >> >> David >> > > > Code: > -------------------- > hdparm -S 240 /dev/sda > -------------------- > > for a 20-minute spindown time. > > The hard part is stopping the drive from being woken by unimportant > housekeeping tasks. In particular, I think I needed to tweak the > settings for 'ksyslogd', to stop it writing 'MARK' to the syslog every > five minutes. > > It's not a fun task, but the best way I've found to do it is by > stopping almost every process/service and then starting them one by > one... > > Matthew > > > _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
