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ikamusume

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Registered: 2010-11-15

Posts: 7

Keeping hard drive in sleep mode while not in use

I've got a spare hard drive in my box, which I'm currently using for backups with rsync scheduled to be done once a day via crond. Since it's only used once a day, I figured it would be a good idea to put it into sleep mode by adding `hdparm -Y /dev/sdb` to my backup script. However, I've got a problem with it randomly waking up while opening GTK save dialogs and such. How can I stop it from doing that or make it automatically go into sleep mode after a set amount of time while keeping my root drive awake at all times? And yeah, I know all the downsides of doing that, but noise is the primary issue here.

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ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: Keeping hard drive in sleep mode while not in use

You can check laptop-mode-tools for the various tunables they use to optimize disk usage and let it spindown as much as possible.

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graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 10,696

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Re: Keeping hard drive in sleep mode while not in use

@op - you ever figure this out?

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