Re: Where's /etc/rc.d/rc.local???
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 04:31, Elijah wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been having problems with my second drive (hdd) since everytime I
> browse through it pauses on occasion and gives some I/O errors. I
> somehow solved it with hdparm:
> hdparm -c 1 /dev/hdd
> hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd
> hdparm -k 1 /dev/hdd
>
> I'm quite sure the -k option will keep these settings for my hdd but
> after reboot, it did'nt. So it made me look for rc.local to put these
> commands to, but I just can't find it(?). I put them commands to
> /etc/rc.boot/ and made a script there with the commands. Everything
> seems to go well. But to make sure ... am what I doing alright? is this
> the proper way to setup my hdd?
Install the hwtools package. Among other things, it will create
the file /etc/init.d/hwtools and /etc/rcS.d/S60hwtools will be a
symlink to it. There is where you can put all the hdparm stuff.
Also, note that you can put all your options on 1 command line:
hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hdd
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