[mythtv-users] Hard-drive spindown when idle?

[Simon Hobson]

f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>Ubuntu in particular also has a cronjob called "standard" in
>cron.daily that will spin up every disk with a filesystem on
>it, once a day, in order to see if there are any files in
>lost+found.  I commented out the half of the file that does
>this so disks wouldn't get needlessly spun up every 24 hours.
>
>I wouldn't be surprised if other Debian-based distros did, this,
>too.  It's been in Ubuntu since at least 5.04 (5 years ago) and
>probably longer.  I think this behavior is questionable at best.

Just checked, it's in the current Debian as well.

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