Michał Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a home database/symfony env/etc../file server. It's based on > Intel D945GCLF2D Atom board. I've got a two hard drives WD Green Power > connected through Sata. First drive has / and /home filesystem, second > has /home/samba4. On the first drive there are two directories > /home/samba2 and /home/samba3 where I'm mounting ecryptfs. > /home/samba4 is also crypted by default. > > I'm wondering if there is a safe way for such configuration to put > second harddrive into sleep (or both drives) after some idle time? > After some googling I've found some resolutions (haven't tested any of > these yet): > - hdparm -S I use this for the data drive on my mythbox. I just put this in my /etc/rc.local - # Spin down in 1 hours idle time hdparm -S 240 /dev/sda (yeah, oddly, sda is not my boot drive) :) > - sdparm --set=STANDBY > - and laptop_tools > > I'm really not convinced that these methods are safe for my > configuration. Anyone have tried this before? Yep. What kind of safety are you worried about? It should just work, although you want a long enough idle time that you're not constantly spinning the disk up and down. Is there any nice user-friendly frontend to set this? It'd be nice to expose more power management choices to the users (for anything that can't be easily defaulted, that is). -Eric > BTW. I'm using F11 on this system - it appears that I even don't have > /etc/hdparm.conf... > > Regards, > Michal > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
