[ltp] Fedora on Thinkpads

Frank Schaeckermann linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:33:24 +0100


Stephan,
the possible options in fstab are explained under the -o option of the 
mount command (man mount and "-o" does the trick).

Stephan Herhut sah-at-herhut.de |Linux on ThinkPads| wrote:
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
>> BTW, Mandrake 9.2 includes this patch (not enabled by default of
>> course), and if installation detects a laptop, noatime is set (at least
>> on ext3.
> 
> 
> So, I tried noasync, which isnt an allowed option, thenm dirsync. Maybe 
> I should try noatime as well. Can anyone please explain to me, what 
> those flags mean, as I haven found any recent documentation for that.
> 
> Or has anyone the laptop mode and harddisk spindown working and can show 
> me his /etc/fstab?
> 
> Thank you
> Stephan
>