How do I "spin-down" hardrive after X minutes to save power?

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:58:57AM -0700, Kevin Wang wrote:
> there are lots of other apps that read and write to/from the disk.
> netscape (used to?) do that; write its book mark file every 60
> seconds.  yuck. killed my laptop battery fast.
> First thing to do is to make sure the filesystem is mounted with the
> 'noatime' option. that'll help.

Also: 

echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode


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