Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Fri, 13 May 2005 17:05:48 -0500

> I recently discovered that I can greatly improve my harddrive
> performance by  customizing a few settings using hdparm on the
> command-line.  I'd like to  make the changes permanent, but I'm not
> sure where to do that.

If you have Sarge or newer, you only need to put the changes in /etc/hdparm.conf and it will be picked up at boot time by /etc/init.d/hdparm.

Jacob