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2007 Jul 17
3
drive to standby after idle timeout?
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 sel...