On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:38:39PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Mounting an internally installed disk on a laptop spins up all disks connected to this machine via USB. And I try to prevent these externally connected disks to spin up. The behaviour, IIRC, started a few months ago on the previous F27 and continues now on F28. Before that I don't remember this behaviour to have happened.
Solution: systemctl mask --now smartd So far this seems to work, here on Fedora at least: on Debian (same computer, on a different disk) the problem seems to persist, in spite of doing something similar to what I did on Fedora - maybe a result of a different and even more buggy version on Debian. No idea, so far ... I installed smartmontools, IINM, Jan 2017 - so I think this spinning up of disks over the last few months might be a bug due to a new version. Not being sure tho' ... HTH Regards, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
