[ltp] Hard disk shutdown

[IBM ThinkPad]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ted Johansson wrote:

> I am trying to have the hard disk stop after X min of inactivity. The
> computer is in the living room and often just left on for long time.
>
> I changed from ext3 to ext2, added the "noatime" parameter in fstab,
> also tried noflush from sourceforge with 1 min (for testing purpose)
> timeout, but the disk still only stops for a few seconds. Same if I set
> a very short timeout using hdparm.
>
> Any more suggested tricks to get this working?

Be sure to have enough real memory, otherwise your machine will constantly
swap.

On my machine, NOFLUSHD did a quite good job after switching back to EXT2.

Best regards,

 Steph