Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

[Mark Kirkwood]

Jakob Buchgraber wrote:

> The drive is mounted (contains the / partition). If no program access
> the harddisk, this actually shouldn't matter as otherwise the whole
> concept of laptop-mode etc. is nuts (or I completely misunderstood it
> :-) ).
>

Some more guesses that are not solutions :-) :

Other factors might be journal write (if / is a journaled file system), 
  or swap activity (if your laptop is short on ram) - basically the 
kernel needs to do housekeeping stuff - possibly for a little while 
after you have stopped doing anything.

However I'd expect that after a *while* (i.e few minutes) it should 
settle down - no more activity should mean no more file buffer cache 
flushes, swaps or journal writes.

have you tried leaving the machine for a few minutes (i.e going and 
making a coffee), *then* stopping the drive?

Cheers

Mark


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