[ltp] Re: Hard drive sound/noise

[Stefan Monnier]

> If you disabled journal commits, it wouldn't be a journalling FS, would 
> it?  You can mount an ext3 filesystem as ext2 without borking it, 
> natch, but you'll have to wait for it to fsck if there's an unplanned 
> shutdown.  You can also put "ext3.commit=1800" in your kernel command 
> line to make the journal commits happen every 1800 seconds instead of 
> every 5.  This may work better for people who don't want their disks to 
> spin up that often.

This is pretty standard nowadays anyway.  It used to be called "laptop-mode"
but has been integrated/renamed.  I believe the `laptop-mode-tools' Debian
package does that, and it gets automatically installed and enabled if you
say your machine is a laptop.


        Stefan