hd-idle and rootfs

[hojnikb]

So recently i've switched to running archlinuxarm from a flash drive to external HDD. Nothig wrong with that, everything works perfectly now (no dead flash drives and currupted filesystems) but there is a problem though. Since everything is on the HDD now, it never spins down. So i'm literaly running it 24/7, while before it spun down, when there was no activity on it (pretty much most of the time).

I'm using seagate dockstar and its used for samba, torrents and flexget. hd-idle is setup but i never get the drive to spin down.

So is there a way, to tweak the system to a point, where there is little to no disk activity when things are idle (eg no one is accessing samba or downloading torrents) ?
I would switch back to flash drives, but i've had too much trouble with that in the past.

[moonman]

Take a look here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop_Mode_Tools
It will be difficult to keep the hdd spun down, i personally don't care much about it as the power draw is minimal and constantly spinning the drive up and down will shorten its life. This is what will likely happen since it is your system drive.

[hojnikb]

Well, i guess i'll let it keep spinning. I'm not worried about power consumption, neither the noise (its pretty silent) but just the general reduced life, because its constantly on. Last drive, that was inside had 25K hours and went bad (well it still works, just gets alot of errors).

Too bad there is no tiny nand version of archlinux arm with all the most common stuff inside

[moonman]

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')Too bad there is no tiny nand version of archlinux arm with all the most common stuff inside