Kiko Piris <kernel@pirispons.net> writes:

> On 20/02/2004 at 12:32, Cristiano De Michele wrote:
> 
> > that is only journaling is writing to my HD
> > and anyway every minute more or less something
> > gets written to HD preventing it from being spinned down
> 
> IIRC, laptop-mode included in mainline 2.4 does not reset commit
> interval of ext3 filesystems (as surely did the patch you applied to
> older kernels).
> 
> You need to remount your filesystems with appropate commit option. You
> can see the updated control script that's in 2.6.*-mm* trees.

Or use this patch...