On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:56:51AM +0200, Neil wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
> >> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > On Thu,
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
>> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>
>> I underst
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> I understand that I don't need much processing power; that's why I was
> thinking of an embe
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
...
> > But IIUC, the power draw, especially of an old and probably energy
> > inefficient computer, is much higher than that of a dedicated external
> > di
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Sam Leon wrote:
>>> Hmm, sounded like a good idea but with the drive unmounted and spun
>>> down, it still spins up right before a shut down or a reboot. :(
>>
>> Hmmm, very puzzling. I'd ask lkml.
Not puzziling at all. Most HDs have utter crap inside that is too dumb to
f
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:11 -0400
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called
> > someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup
> >
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:11 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called
> someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup
> over rsync or NFS, and turn it off. If it does wake-on-lan you
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/15/08 19:16, Sam Leon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am
using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the
drive will be rarely accessed I added:
/dev/sd
On 10/15/08 19:16, Sam Leon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am
using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the
drive will be rarely accessed I added:
/dev/sdb {
spindown_time =
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:16:33PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
> Hmm, sounded like a good idea but with the drive unmounted and spun
> down, it still spins up right before a shut down or a reboot. :(
Over the years I've tried to sort this ou
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am
using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the
drive will be rarely accessed I added:
/dev/sdb {
spindown_time = 180
}
To hdparm.conf to spin down t
Sam Leon wrote:
> Does the hard drive have to spin up in order to flush a buffer or
> something before shut down? Any way to get around this?
Unmount the volume when not in use. Unmounted volumes do not need to
spin up during shutdown.
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On 10/14/08 14:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Ron is correct (as usual); there are lots of housekeeping that must
Just on the easy stuff. Debian does so much for us, and daemons
like Postfix are so stable, with simple-to-read text files that they
can run unattended for years, leading to
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> Original Message
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Hard Drive Spin Down
>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:25:58 -0500
>
>>On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
>>> I have added a large drive to my deskt
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote:
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am
using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the
drive will be rarely accessed I added:
/dev/sdb {
spindown_time = 180
}
To hdparm.conf to spin down the disk after 15 min
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