[ltp] Fedora on Thinkpads

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Stephan Herhut wrote:

> Am Mo, den 10.11.2003 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod um 17:23:
> > > Seems you know about it then;)
> > > So, does it work with ext3 as my disk spins up periodically, even if it
> > > is enabled. I am using ACPI, so I have to enable it manually at the
> > > moment ( I havent dealed with acpid yet). Or is there some kind of howto?
> >
> > Yes, it turns mine off with ext3 pretty good.  All you need to do
> > is to add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf like this:
> >
> > vm.laptop_mode = 1
>
> Well, mine keeps on spinning. Every 5 seconds the hd light flashed up
> just a little bit but I have no idea what program does this. Any idea
> how to figure out?

5 second is the flush time for ext3.  Do laptop_mode, and set all
your partitions as noasync in fstab, should do the job.

> Thanks
> Stephan
>
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