laptop hard disk etiquette

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 10:54 -0700, Curtis Doty wrote:
> 1:43pm Jeremy Katz said:
> > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 22:48 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> >> 4. fedora should probably default to relatime mount option
> >>    on laptops at least (as Ingo suggested here:
> >>    http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148 )
> >
> > [katzj at aglarond ~]$ grep CONFIG_DEFAULT_RELATIME /boot/config*
> > CONFIG_DEFAULT_RELATIME=y
> > CONFIG_DEFAULT_RELATIME_VAL=1
> >
> > And it's been that way for months now :)
> >
> 
> Which is great. But don't make the mistake of thinking you can explictly 
> add the relatime option to / in fstab. Because mkinitrd cannot handle. :-(

You don't have to add the option.  The right thing happens when the
kernel mounts the filesystem

Jeremy