On Jul 17, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Tru Huynh wrote:
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:
hdparm -y /dev/hdd
hmm.. still doesn't seem to stick:
---
root@qube3 /]# hdparm -y /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
issuing standby command
[root@qube3 /]# hdparm -C /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
drive state is: active/idle
[root@qube3 /]#
---
I see similar results when setting the spindown time with -S.
Recently run commands should be memory-resident, right? Or do I need
to set something somewhere for that to happen?
(I'm not activating the drive again just to run hdparm am I?)
I don't see any cron events that are set for every minute or anything
super short.
Do I need to set specific mount options? If so, which ones?
Thanks-
Brian
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