[Cialug] USB mounted drives

[L. V. Lammert]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Tom Pohl wrote:

> I have a USB backup drive that gets rsync'd to it every night and unmounts when the backup completes.
>
> At the start of my backup script, I throw in an "fdisk -l /dev/sda"
> (the drive is /dev/sda in this case) to get things moving and allow it
> to spin up nicely before trying to mount it.
>
Hi Tom,

I"ve never heard of that, but, then, I don't typically try to use USB
drives 'permanently' <G>!

I guess the only solution is to try and disable via hdparms, ..

	Thanks!

	Lee