On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:54:24 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > BTW, udiskie doesn't use gvfs usermount neither does use GVFS, but caused spin downs and ups. My WD HDD goes to sleep after 30 minutes. I didn't monitor the LED all the time, but after I run [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep smartctl .bash_history date ; sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc date ; sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc 4 Start_Stop_Count 193 Load_Cycle_Count of smartctl do show if there happened too much spin downs and ups. JFTR after 30 minutes the LED should start flashing, when the drive does sleep. If nothing wakes up the drive, it should flash after a few hours, but here it was on without flashing.