[xubuntu-users] Hard drives and backup - Was: Am I the only one who still uses floppies?

[Eric Christopherson]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:07:29 -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:27:34 -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> >> >Is this sort of cycling a danger to internal drives too (ones that
> >> >don't get actively used by the OS, I mean)? I wonder if my internal
> >> >backup drive might be at risk.
> >> 
> >> No it isn't a risk as long as you didn't set up the drives to
> >> automatically spin down and sleep when they were not used for a
> >> while.
> >> 
> >> The issue with gvfs and similar software is that it wakes up sleeping
> >> drives immediately after a drive spin down.
> >
> >Does this happen if the drive isn't mounted?
> 
> Yes, it does.
> 
> Btw. if you remove GVFS, then you can't mount drives by click with
> Thunar, but if you e.g. install spacefm, you still can mount with
> mouse-click, but even for spacefm you need to disable some options to
> not wake up the green drive. If you use Rodent you also still can mount
> by mouse click and you don't need to disable anything.
> 
> Btw. I'm a command line user, I mount by command line und manage files
> by command line, but assumed for some reason I want to use a graphical
> file manager, then I prefer spacefm over Rodent and Thunar. Best
> features are provided by spacefm, you might need to add some tools to
> your needs, resp. regarding the features Rodent is as good as spacefm,
> but it's too slow when opening directories with many files. The
> performance of spacefm is much better. The only good thing that Thunar
> (without GVFS) has in common with spacefm and rodent is a sane keyboard
> delete option. Thunar performs better than Rodent, but not better than
> spacefm.

Interesting. I had heard of SpaceFM, and it looks very nice; I always
thought pane-based layouts were good in file managers (and even
occasionally in web browsers). I hadn't heard of rodent.

Still, my favorite file manager is ROX Filer, but it seems to take an
eternity to spin up on my Xubuntu system. I haven't gotten around to
tracking down what's taking it so long.

-- 
        Eric Christopherson