MichaĆ 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