[ltp] Fedora on Thinkpads

[Buchan Milne]

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Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Stephan Herhut wrote:
>
>
>>Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Lemme introduce myself briefly.  I'm a happy owner of a Sony Vaio
>>>laptop.  The only reason you see me around here is that I'm
>>>developing a laptop framework for the Fedora Project, so
>>>gathering info.
>>
>>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

And then you need to run 'sysctl -p' (of course, settings will take
effect on the next boot too). Or you can set the option manually  with:

sysctl -w vm.laptop_mode=1

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.

Regards,
Buchan

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