Re: Old laptop is firewall, spindown the disk?

[Ez-Aton]

Use Laptop-mode. You can set it all there. Ez. David Harel wrote: Do you know if noflushd will eventually spin the disk up again if cache becomes full? Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 03:25:59PM +0300, David Harel wrote: Hi, I have this old laptop I turned into a firewall. It is only doing IP forwarding (NAT, MASQUERADING or whatever it takes) using iptables. I have 256MB ram on it. My idea is to have the disk spin down unless it is needed. Any idea? Mount root with noatime. Google for noflushd. Stop all unnecessary daemons. Good luck,