21 Jun
2001
21 Jun
'01
02:43
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 18:26, Paul Abrahams wrote:
If my system has been inactive for X minutes, I could use hdparm to place the disk into standby mode. But then the question is: what can I use to detect the inactivity so as to initiate the hdparm call?
Actually this is what hdparm does. I just checked the manpage and I can see how the wording is confusing. For example the effect of: hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda would be that after 20 minutes of inactivity (240 secs) the drive will spin down. Cheers, Chris. -- Chris Clarke security@cfourconsulting.com http://cfourconsulting.com