From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVso5-0000aT-Fw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:25:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6647EE0435; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 19:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4209EE0435 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 19:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b25so642801elf.1 for ; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:25:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hYhyng2oIL1zqxrW9mxuhOdefbeW5qtW8K8z3IDEfuA=; b=V7su9cgWaN6xAe6NghT182WST82IkBaQ1HvTUomVW4cvXTFDIj4aJD4zzKUUus5sAM VzHft3u4b5ZMW36hk8AMj29MGNxDP30UpuUZ/Z/KobPUuZp1rjVatju1UejlIiXasxRe VHiUsWqVzQuiKI/mYHE3jUijCSVsSTecwA7+E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UbDal7AfckpeLFlCnm4L98seEu7SyDE4702COhZw8ErLrUSaAlX2F1W3AUclDCqP9K TA7nOWMGS7GblM7UHKBg9cHckDlUfjVwH7HJlpcCIVEaBM7xERORrrgAaHjTTCC+f9wW r5RJITSWHxnTMIkIstbxS1sGPRprd2bTqFNFc= Received: by 10.90.65.5 with SMTP id n5mr1305785aga.68.1234034735846; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:25:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.82.243? (dialup-4.231.82.243.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.82.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm4459853agb.0.2009.02.07.11.25.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:25:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <498DE02B.9090803@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:25:31 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save References: <6492cf010902070443j1a8db47exfdabed337831ab9c@mail.gmail.com> <6492cf010902070533y16052edfn63361480a6b8baf3@mail.gmail.com> <498DC154.3050705@gmail.com> <6492cf010902070957k17bba254xe50bf442781342ff@mail.gmail.com> <6492cf010902071119w2797d468o4baa64222c1fd0c5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6492cf010902071119w2797d468o4baa64222c1fd0c5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0d4a9c4e-15d2-4987-b1c3-e17c1dd34e04 X-Archives-Hash: 9c986dcfa5068f4eb2cd4c8044e4d6e6 Danis Petkakis wrote: > you're telling me i have to umount it first and then put it to sleep? > because it is mounted it cannot be put to sleep? > If you have a journalized file system, you may have to. Every time it updates the journal it will spin the drive back up. I think some of the gurus need to know what file system you are using and then go from there. Spinning down a drive can be done but some situations won't allow that to happen to well. Dale :-) :-)