On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 04:59, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Paul van Tilburg schrieb: > > > In my experience the most important thing to be able to spin down the > disk is not writeing to it all the time. This can be accopmlished with > Jens Axboe's laptop mode patch which is included in latest benh kernels.
apt-get install noflushd much less invasive, basically changes the commit to disk interval. also, mount -t tmpfs none /var can help (maybe make a skeleton /var and cp it over when you go into battery mode. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia
