On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:35:07AM -0400, Brian wrote: > I'd like to to put the hard drives in standby mode during periods of > no activity. I'm just running a file server plus a couple small > things on a Qube 3 from home, although the web stuff will increase > it's still minimal. > > On my NetBSD systems I can use atactl to do this via: > > mount -u -o async,noatime,nodevmtime / > mount -u -o async,noatime /usr > atactl wd0 setidle 5 > > [wait a time] > # atactl wd0 checkpower > Current power status: Standby mode > > I looked at smartctl but it doesn't look like I can set idle time > with it, just readout status and perform self-tests. Is there a way? if it's some IDE drive then hdparm(8) might help: Cheers, Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B
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