[SOLVED]EXT4 Internal Hard Disk Does Not Spin Down

navailable · 2022-07-09 19:09:04

I have an internal hard disk. I automount it by fstab it looks like this:

UUID=54f6de6b-3dc3-47ee-9aaf-68dae250b623 /run/media/navailable/HDD ext4 rw,relatime 0 0

I set Standby timeout 3 minutes and APM (Advanced Power Management) for 50 on gnome-disk-utility but it does not spin down after 3 minutes pass. How to solve this issue? Thanks.

Last edited by navailable (2022-08-01 20:26:19)

seth · 2022-07-09 20:23:42

Stop accessing it.
If there's a lot of data, gnomes file indexer is probably … indexing it.

See whether you can get it to standby or sleep w/ hdparm -y/-Y and try the behavior from a multi-user.target (console) login to get gnome out of the way.

navailable · 2022-07-09 20:39:02

I don't use Gnome but I have a package named tracker3 is that the reason of indexing? Maybe I can stop indexing.

seth · 2022-07-09 20:58:07

The why do you use

on gnome-disk-utility

?
Don't use that, use hdparm.
Is the tracker process running?

navailable · 2022-07-09 21:15:45

hdparm -y can spin down the drive but it spins up right after that.
tracker is not running.

It only spins down when I unmount it.

seth · 2022-07-09 21:26:06

Check "sudo lsof | grep 'navailable/HDD'" - something™ is accessing the drive.

navailable · 2022-07-09 21:43:37

tried sudo lsof | grep 'run/media/navailable/HDD'

it says: lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.

seth · 2022-07-09 22:21:07

Since there's some gvfs, try from the multi-user.target still (just to figure whether this is by some session tool or eg. upower/udisks - make sure there's no graphical session, don't just switch the VT)

navailable · 2022-08-01 20:25:35

Finally It spun down after some couple hours maybe there was some indexing. Solved!

This is how it looks in fstab

UUID=c306d357-94a5-4da3-bc22-198525e6a902 /run/media/navailable/HDD ext4 rw,relatime 0 0

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