On Saturday 16 February 2002 17:00, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 04:38:09PM +0100, Daniel Faller wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running the ext3 filesystem on a laptop. The default value for the
> > commit time of ext3 seems to be 30 sec, which is too short for the HD to
> > spin down. How can I increase this timeout ?
>
> Use tune2fs (man tune2fs for usage).
The man page only mentions: -j and -J, the options for -J are size and
device, but no timeout.
If I really can set this with tune2fs (from the e2fsprogs package) I need to
know the appropriate option. :-)
Gruss
Daniel
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