As i understand, after autofs unmounts disk (network or otherwise) it keeps spinning. It costs energy, so i wonder is there any way to put hard disk to idle state after autofs timeout kicks in?
On 2010-10-22 14:06, mkudro wrote:
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> As i understand, after autofs unmounts disk (network or otherwise) it
> keeps spinning. It costs energy, so i wonder is there any way to put
> hard disk to idle state after autofs timeout kicks in?
Have a look at hdparm.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
thnx Robin for tip. War very helpful. Although in the end i have started using laptop_mode (daemon from laptop-mode-tools package), which of course is scripting way of using hdparm.
And i also found very useful tool powertop.
On 2010-10-25 09:36, mkudro wrote:
> thnx Robin for tip. War very helpful. Although in the end i have
> started using -laptop_mode- (daemon from -laptop-mode-tools- package),
> which of course is scripting way of using -hdparm-.
It does way more 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
There is a small utility which runs as a service called spindown for powering down idle drives
I believe it’s just a daemon that makes use of hdparm’s ‘put drive in standby mode’ switch
Should be able to find it either over at software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 11.3 or with Yast’s Webpin if you wanna take a look at it