Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:33:44 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limit Continuous Drive Activity to Power Down HDD Message-ID: <86sm3gfv2f.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <f34ca13c0502260840626a829b@mail.gmail.com> References: <f34ca13c0502260840626a829b@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> writes: > The BIOS of the motherboard supports automatic HDD shutdown in > XX-minutes of inactivity. However, I have noticed that this doesn't > work as intended with FreeBSD: if I set BIOS to shutdown HDD in two > minutes of inactivity, and then I start FreeBSD without logging into > the system, the disc stops after a few minutes, but it starts again > after less than a few minutes due to some disc activity by FreeBSD. Comment out the atrun entry in /etc/crontab, and mount all your file systems noatime (change "rw" to "rw,noatime" in /etc/fstab). You may also want to change the newsyslog entry in /etc/crontab to only run once a day instead of every hour. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86sm3gfv2f.fsf>