On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 11:18 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 05 Mar 2020 at 08:26:58 (+0100), Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > 0...@caiway.net wrote: > > > with cron: > > > # prevent disks from sleeping, every minute: > > > * * * * * /bin/touch /dev/sda &>/ > > > > Wha not using "hdparm"? > > Would you be more specific and include the options you are > suggesting. > There are over 60 available, some dangerous. >
I'm assuming he means -S which sets the standby (spindown) time‐out for the drive. I use it to force my NAS drives to spin down so the noise doesn't annoy me. But a timeout of zero will disable spindown. -- Tixy
