How do I "spin-down" hardrive after X minutes to save power?

[Kevin Wang]

You can set hdparm, but the real trick is finding applications that
cause the drive to spin up. like cron.

there are lots of other apps that read and write to/from the disk.
netscape (used to?) do that; write its book mark file every 60
seconds.  yuck. killed my laptop battery fast.

First thing to do is to make sure the filesystem is mounted with the
'noatime' option. that'll help.

   - Kevin

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:43:26 -0700 (PDT), netmask <netmask at enzotech.net> wrote:
> 
> hdparm -S   perhaps?
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> > Apollo at Carmel Music & Entertainment (lists at carmelme.com) composed today:
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> > I have Fedora C1 and can't seem to figure out how to have hard drives
> > spin-down after they haven't been accessed for 30 minutes or so. My computer
> > at home that runs MythTV doesn't really need to generate all that heat and
> > eat power just to record shows in the evening. Is there an easy way to
> > configure that "spin down"?
> > Apollo
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