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rwo

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Registered: 2020-05-15

Posts: 9

Nautilus spins up sleeping HDD

I have a problem with putting a backup HDD in my system to sleep. Opening Nautilus the first time after bootup spins up my sleeping hard disk. I am using the method described in the section "Putting a drive to sleep directly after boot" in the Hdparm wiki entry. I checked with fatrace for file and folder accesses. There aren't any file or folder accesses on the mounted HDD. One suspicion is the udisks-daemon, which checks the SMART Data of the Drives. How can i disable this check for the HDD? Are there any other causes that i should check? Following you find the output of the udisksctl monitor command before Nautilus was started the first time. This command shows the same behavior as Nautilus and spins up the HDD. After executing the command any subsequent Nautilus start doesn't spins up the hard drive.

[rwo@main ~]$ udisksctl monitor
Monitoring the udisks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to exit.
01:50:47.466: The udisks-daemon is running (name-owner :1.65).
01:50:47.499: /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/M4_CT064M4SSD2_00000000112803144027: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive.Ata: Properties Changed
  SmartSelftestPercentRemaining:                0
  SmartSelftestStatus:                          success
  SmartNumBadSectors:                           0
  SmartNumAttributesFailedInThePast:            0
  SmartNumAttributesFailing:                    0
  SmartPowerOnSeconds:                          38412000
  SmartTemperature:                             273.15000000000003
  SmartUpdated:                                 1599349847
01:50:52.384: /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Hitachi_HDS721010DLE630_MSK5235H3ZTG0N: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive.Ata: Properties Changed
  SmartSelftestPercentRemaining:                0
  SmartSelftestStatus:                          success
  SmartNumBadSectors:                           645
  SmartNumAttributesFailedInThePast:            0
  SmartNumAttributesFailing:                    0
  SmartPowerOnSeconds:                          30715200
  SmartTemperature:                             316.15000000000003
  SmartUpdated:                                 1599349852
01:50:52.424: /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/CT500MX500SSD1_1829E149901A: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive.Ata: Properties Changed
  SmartSelftestPercentRemaining:                0
  SmartSelftestStatus:                          success
  SmartNumBadSectors:                           0
  SmartNumAttributesFailedInThePast:            0
  SmartNumAttributesFailing:                    0
  SmartPowerOnSeconds:                          9104400
  SmartTemperature:                             326.15000000000003
  SmartUpdated:                                 1599349852
01:50:59.356: /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Hitachi_HDS723020BLE640_MS77215W07WTJA: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive.Ata: Properties Changed
  SmartSelftestPercentRemaining:                0
  SmartSelftestStatus:                          success
  SmartNumBadSectors:                           0
  SmartNumAttributesFailedInThePast:            0
  SmartNumAttributesFailing:                    0
  SmartPowerOnSeconds:                          71686800
  SmartTemperature:                             313.15000000000003
  SmartUpdated:                                 1599349859

Last edited by rwo (2020-09-06 00:27:06)