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hdd-spindown doesn't suspend disks anymore

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Hi, I'm not sure if it's just me but hdd-spindown has stopped suspending disks on my machine after a recent Arch update. I have tried to track it down but...

nick-s-b

Question about "dev_isup" function

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This script does not work on my machine(Xubuntu 20.04.2). So I checked the shell script. When I comment out [line 68](https://github.com/lynix/hdd-spindown.sh/blob/c07123c007f1c63c7d968130904df12177ee0385/hdd-spindown.sh#L68),my hard drive can sleep normally. I manually run `smartctl...

Taosky

On newer kernels (apparently >5.4) disk monitoring tools will alter R/W stats in `/sys/block/$1/stat`, therefore preventing hdd-spindown.sh from ever spinning down disks. Individual partitions listed in `/proc/diskstats` however will stay...

bocki