I agree that smartmon should default to '-n standby' option, either by the default configuration file or by hard wired default in smartd.
Querying smart data seems to result in spinning up the disk in many cases (at least Seagates). Spinning up the disk needlessly is not good for power consumption and heat dissipation etc. Yours, Harri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org