On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:55:48 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For each drive > $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd... > now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for > ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes > > This will show you if a drive does spin up and down. > > Some software, e.g. GVFS and KDE's equivalent to GVFS could make drives > spin up and down again and again. I'm e.g. using Xfce4 without GVFS, but > after using K3b my "Green" WD USB drive spins up and down again and > again, if I have GVFS installed this happens all the times.
I don't think KDE has anything like GVFS. I use KDE and see nothing extra mounted shows up in my mtab. This is fine since I never saw the point in GVFS at all in the first place. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1411744.YXNcZSAktK@twilight
