Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:46:25 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: hdparm settings: Can they be permanent? |
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Harald Welte wrote:
>> It was suggested to me that the way to make hdparm settings permanent was >> to create a script to change the settings on startup. Is this the best >> choice? > >Yes, indeed. It is the same for all kernel configurable parameters. Look >at /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward, etc.
Not really. Red Hat ships with "sysctl" which runs at boot time and has a config file in /etc which stores settings for /proc/sys/whatever. So you don't have to write a script if you use the sysctl package.
>Some distributions already have the hdparm initscript.
I'm not sure about that one for RH.. I use my own script, but there might be one now..
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