[xubuntu-users] Spin Down Hard Disks

[Michael P. Reilly]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Joshua O'Leary <
joshua.oleary at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Just wondering is it a good idea to leave 'Spin down hard disks' on in
> power manager settings, battery power. Obviously it would save a bit of
> power, but would it shorten the life of the hard disk due to increased
> starting/stopping?
>
> Joshua
>

Actually, it can crash the operating system if the kernel happens to try to
write to swap space or needs to write buffers to disk, potentially leaving
a corrupted file-system.  Might not happen as much now with ext3 and ext4,
but still...  If you are going to try that, then a) don't use swap and b)
run 'sync;sync' before the hard drives are spun down.

  -Arcege
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The elephant
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