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Re: How to prevent LVM disk spinup at shutdown



Le Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:44:16 Malte Forkel, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I use a couple of LVM volumes on a MD RAID1 array for backup. These volumes
> are rarely accessed, so I use hdparm to switch the RAID disks into standby
> mode.
>
> I noticed that the disks are forced to spin up whenever the the system
> shuts down. What is causing the spin up? Is there a way to avoid this?
>
> Thanks, Malte

I have the same "problem" with my external USB drive, used for backups.

It wakes up when the filesystem is umounted, because the cache must be 
flushed.

Perhaps, should we mount and unmount the filesystem each time my backups 
runs...

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