> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't now what exactly does cause the issue. But GVFS does wake up > Green drives without a reason, since by EU Regulation external drives > have to spin down and go to sleep after a while and it's good that they > do so. However, spinning down and up without a reason just damages the > drives. That's why I have GVFS replaced by a dummy package. Usermount > does cause the same issue. Rodent doesn't! > > I have udisks and udisks2 installed since a very long time, at least > they alone don't cause the issue. > > FWIW KDE has something similar to GVFS. After running K3B my external > Green USB HDD spins down and up again and again too. I never found out > what does cause this ugly behaviour for KDE. > > I'm not using one of the bloated DEs. I'm using openbox and JWM and > most of the times for drive and file related "things" I'm using > RoxTerm. IOW I manually mount and unmount drives, but using scripts, so > that I can do this by using labels, or explicitly for an optical drive. > > Reporting this as a bug is useless, I tried, but first the coders balme > the HDD companies and after explaining that it's an EU Regulation, they > blame the "minority" of idiots like me who are from the EU. Pff, I > don't care, I don't need GVFS and similar software for my work-flow. > > This issue is known since several years. Ah, good to know. BTW, udiskie doesn't use gvfs, just udisks2 or udisks. And my other method for known media is autofs, so I hope I'm free from gvfs now (actually I removed it since I removed pcmanfm), :-) Thanks for the explanation, -- Javier
