ubuntu-server 7.10, what might be preventing my USB drive from sleeping?

[David Vincent]

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Chris G wrote:
> I have a new ubuntu server 7.10 installation used as a NAS system in
> my garage.  It has a 500Gb external USB drive connected to it.
> 
> Something is preventing the external USB drive from going into sleep
> mode, i.e. something is accessing the USB drive at intervals such that
> it thinks it shouldn't power down.  Previously when I used the network
> drive via its ethernet interface (not from the ubuntu server system)
> it did go into sleep mode.
> 
> The ubuntu server installation was done without the USB drive even
> connected so there's nothing apart from backups on the external drive.
> 
> Can anyone suggest what might be keeping the USB drive awake and/or
> ways of diagnosing what's keeping it awake?

Since it is shared, is anything accessing that share?  Maybe something
trying to index it?

You used a server edition so trackerd shouldn't be a problem, how about
updatedb?  What is being shared there?  Is something on a client machine
re-indexing your music collection?

Just some thoughts.

- -d


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