On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 08:56 -0700, InvalidPath wrote:
> So a bit of clarification: This 2TB Seagate was previously used at a storage 
> drive in a WIn10 system.. my old system from about 2 years back. When I 
> migrated to Fedora I kept it unmounted for quite a while until a couple 
> months ago. To be honest I cannot recall currently what it is formatted as 
> right now... I have a suspicion it's still NTFS just because I have no other 
> device to offload the data too in order to reformat as something better. 
> However I will verify that tonight.  And no this disk is a single huge 
> partition.
> In addition it's not a green drive.. so there should be no spinning down to 
> save energy (that I know of).
> 
> @Patrick, What you describe with your previous mounted NAS that is the exact 
> activity I see.

[Please don't top-post in replies]

You can check the state of the drive using smartctl before trying to
open a dialogue. It may be spinning down even if not 'green'.

poc
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