Re: hdparm (rcS.d pollution)

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>]

Christopher> rcS.d should bring up a minmum, er, "Safe Mode", system
Christopher> only, and you can start the things you need manually.

I think you should boot with -b if you really want to be _that_
minimal.

The single-user mode (ie. runlevel s) is for things that require a
quiet system, but also more or less normal working environment for
root.  For instance, I do all big upgrades (including any libc
upgrades) from there.  So, IMO networking, ntpdate, hdparm are all
legitimate.

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