Incoming from Thomas Chadwick:
> I recently discovered that I can greatly improve my harddrive performance
> by customizing a few settings using hdparm on the command-line. I'd like
> to make the changes permanent, but I'm not sure where to do that. Is there
> an /etc/init.d/hdparm script out there somewhere that I should be using?
Try mine, attached. It's not art.
> Presumably I'll want to link to it from one of the /etc/rc*.d directories.
> Which one, and what should I call it?
/etc/init.d/hdparm_init
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#! /bin/bash
#
# /etc/init.d/hdparm_init by sbk - 1Dec2003
#
# see file:///usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/ch-customizing.html
#
# update-rc.d hdparm_init start 19 2 . stop 19 0 1 6 .
#
case "$1" in
start)
if [ -f /sbin/hdparm ]; then
# 4Jan2004 - trying "-M":
# get/set acoustic management (0-254,
# 128: quiet, 254: fast)
# - oops. that option doesn't appear
# to exist in woody.
/sbin/hdparm -d1 -X66 -c1 -u1 -m 16 /dev/hda
/sbin/hdparm -d1 -X34 -c1 -u1 /dev/hdc
echo "hdparm_init: optimize disk performance."
fi
;;
stop|force-reload|restart)
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
