laptop hard disk etiquette

[Curtis Doty]

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. :-(

 	http://bugzilla.redhat.com/296361

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