IIRC on modern kernels, hard drive spindown is enabled by default. i've seen it happen on my machine where i'm not doing anything special.
the enemy of long-uptime in commodity boxes is dust building up in the CPU and power supply fans and eventually clogging them. :P just check the innards of any linux box that's been running for a couple years. On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:11:55 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:05:04 +0800, bodgie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:47:41 +0800, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Side question: Is there a way to have the HDD spin down or power down > > when the box is idle? Like after office hours for a file server, when > > /sbin/hdparm -S n /dev/xxyz > > "man hdparm" for details. > > -- > Gideon N. Guillen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Take back the web! Download Firefox Today! > http://getfirefox.com > > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
