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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