Auto suspend/spin-down idle disk

[John Obaterspok]

Hello,

I have a SSD disk as system disk and a:
- HDD as backup drive that is used a couple of times each week
- HDD as media disk that is perhaps used a couple of times each day

I've tried to set the spindown to 1 hour of being idle via gnome-disks.
Problem is that it never spins down.

- I've verified that it spins down via hdparm -y /dev/sda
- I've also set the smartd check interval to 5h (smartd_opts="--quit never
--interval=18000") in /etc/sysconfig/smartmontools
- Disks are mounted with "type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered)"

Any hints on how I get the disks to spin down?

-- john

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 29 December 2013, John Obaterspok sent:
> Any hints on how I get the disks to spin down?

Do a manual unmount, and leave it unmounted, perhaps?

[John Obaterspok]

2013/12/29 Tim
> Allegedly, on or about 29 December 2013, John Obaterspok sent:
> > Any hints on how I get the disks to spin down?
>
> Do a manual unmount, and leave it unmounted, perhaps?

Well, then it's easier to force them to suspend. The media disk is used via
smb/nfs occasionally. There must be a way to get this to work correctly