truenas-spindown-timer
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ngandrass
Monitors drive I/O and forces HDD spindown after a given idle period. Resistant to S.M.A.R.T. reads.
1. hdparm -C and/or hdparm -I may wake up some drive, so added option (-r) to use smartctl instaead of hdparm(Afaik smartctl -i does not wake up drive). 2. During...
script enters a loop on zpool mode on freenas with the following error: ``` invalid option 'H' usage: iostat [-v] [-T d|u] [pool] ... [interval [count]] ``` it must be...
Hi, I am on TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.2 and the drives in my zpool are not detected: root@nafs1[~/scripts]# /root/scripts/spindown_timer.sh -v -u zpool -i boot-pool -i natank1 [2024-02-25 11:22:40] Running HDD Spindown Timer version...
Hi, I setup the script on my Truenas Scale system (version: TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.4.2) and unfortunately the drives will not spindown. I have made sure that the storage system dataset pool is...
For testing, I just installed TrueNAS-13.0-U6.1 and your script by following your documentation. There's nothing else installed. Yet, my HDD keeps spinning up and down every 5 minutes. [2024-01-28 12:53:26]...
To balance my shutdown timer I need to find out how often disks are accessed, It would be good to have a minimal log which prompts a spinup or only...
Aware that spindown_timer.sh is not confirmed to be compatible with TrueNAS SCALE 23.10.1 but I tried and (so far…) failed. Some observations: (4 disks installed; 3*data (tank/SATA HDD) + 1*system...
Like some others, I needed to disable smart on my drives to make this script useful. Keeping smart on spins the disks up after max 5 minutes of inactivity. I...
i.e. remove the loop from the existing `spindown_timer.sh` script and do a one-time check and spindown if needed when the script is run. Then you create a cron job(s) as...
1. Use the `logger` command to log to syslog every time `echo` is used. (`-d` changes the default to off.) 2. Perhaps have a `-l` switch that can be used...