On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 08:56 -0700, InvalidPath wrote:
> So a bit of clarification: This 2TB Seagate was previously used at a storage drive in a WIn10 system.. my old system from about 2 years back. When I migrated to Fedora I kept it unmounted for quite a while until a couple months ago. To be honest I cannot recall currently what it is formatted as right now... I have a suspicion it's still NTFS just because I have no other device to offload the data too in order to reformat as something better. However I will verify that tonight. And no this disk is a single huge partition.
> In addition it's not a green drive.. so there should be no spinning down to save energy (that I know of).
>
> @Patrick, What you describe with your previous mounted NAS that is the exact activity I see.
[Please don't top-post in replies]
You can check the state of the drive using smartctl before trying to
open a dialogue. It may be spinning down even if not 'green'.
poc
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(Sorry)
Ok good to know.. I'll check that this evening before actually trying to access the contents and see what's happening.
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