Ubuntu
sysvinit package

  1. Bug #8585
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 8585

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

But /usr/sbin/laptop-mode is a shell script, and it can only know the filesystem
type by poking around in /etc/mtab ... if this is non-revealing it can't set the
appopriate filesystem parameters and remount the filesytem noatime, etc.

The effect is that laptop-mode is ON, but the filesystem hasn't been tuned so it
prevents the hard drive from actually spinning down.