On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 at 15:45, Markus Schaaf <markuschaaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > for a long time now, I'm seeing unclean shutdowns of SATA drives > on different machines running Arch. There is a nice write-up > about the problem here: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170410232118.GA4816@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > If you are willing to google with the right keywords, you will > find a lot of similar reports all over the interwebs. I can > remember a configuration setting for the Linux kernel, which > existed in ancient times, to delay the final step of powering off > the machine for some time. Is there anything like that in the > distributed kernels right now? Any knob I could turn? you can probably make a shutdown service that delays the shutdown or even invokes some commands to make sure HDDs are fine? another way is to make a custom mkinitcpio hook that adds a shutdown script (alas I can't find the proper documentation about it) -- damjan
