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  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #100

Comment 100 for bug 59695

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Martin Emrich (emme) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks

Hi!

wolfchri schrieb:
> @Martin Emrich:
>
> All my (laptop) systems run with the "noatime,nodiratime" parameter ion
> /etc/fstab for all partitions.
>
> It makes no difference :-(

It was not meant as a fix for the problem (I have noatime since a long
time), but rather as an explaination for the disk not spinning down very
often. The heads will nevertheless unload too often.

> BTW I registered a blueprint to turn off atime on desktops as this is
> completely braindead to have this on by default, as even Linus admits.

Good Idea. I found the rant myself :)

Martin