Re: hdparm init.d script?

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

"Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com> wrote:

|> I recently discovered that I can greatly improve my harddrive
|> performance by customizing a few settings using hdparm on the
|> command-line. I'd like to make the changes permanent, but I'm not sure
|> where to do that. Is there an /etc/init.d/hdparm script out there
|> somewhere that I should be using? Presumably I'll want to link to it
|> from one of the /etc/rc*.d directories. Which one, and what should I
|> call it?

/etc/init.d/hdparm is installed automatically once you install the
package.  All you need to do is edit /etc/hdparm.conf and insert the
parameters you want.

I have always found it easiest to do this with the command-line option
at the very end of the configuration file,

Jim