On Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:57:10 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a powered USB dock with a couple of SATA drives configured as > RAID1, and used only for nightly backups. The (minimal) manual for the > dock tells me it will power down after 30 minutes idle time, however I > don't see this happening. I presume that something (such as the md > system) is touching the drives periodically. > > What is the fstab option to have the drives mounted only when accessed? > This used to be automount (or autofs) but with systemd getting its > fingers into everything I know longer know how to do this. > > Can the drive be automatically unmounted if not in use? I presume this > would stop md from trying to check it and hence prevent the dock from > keeping it powered on. > What is wrong with autofs and in /etc/auto.master # Include /etc/auto.master.d/*.autofs # The included files must conform to the format of this file. # /media /etc/auto.master.d/auto.media --timeout=60 --ghost and in /etc/auto.master.d/auto.media # # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage WD500-MyBook -fstype=auto,noatime,nodiratime :/dev/disk/by-label/WD500-MyBook It works for me. Not USB, it is eSATA. Do we realy need all this systemd monolythic crap? Will Linux abandon unix and become Windows? BR, Bob _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
