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Re: [nslu2-general] Maxtor OneTouch III Mini SpinDown Question

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Subject: Re: [nslu2-general] Maxtor OneTouch III Mini SpinDown Question
From: "Carl Lowenstein" <clowenstein@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:19:11 -0700
On 5/31/07, michael_peter_thompson <michael.p.thompson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I've unslung my NSLU2 with 6.8-beta with a Maxtor OneTouch III Mini on
>  the disk 2 port.  I would like to set the drive to spin down after a
>  period of inactivity.  I followed all the steps outlined in the
>  SetSpinDownTimeOnMaxtorOneTouch Wiki page (crontab change, /var and
>  /dev as ramdisk, /dev/sda1 mounted with noatime), but still can't get
>  the disk to spin down after 3 minutes of no activity as it does when
>  the drive is attached to my PC.
>
>  I suspect there is still some application or package that is touching
>  the drive every every few minutes.  Are there techniques that I can
>  use to determine what application is touching the drive or what files
>  are being read/written?
>

Do you have an ext3 file system on this drive?  If so, by default it
is updating its log file every 5 seconds.

    carl


 
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