Glenn Ramsey wrote:
Chakat Sandwalker wrote:
Is there a way to make the hard disk spin down after X amount of time, such as 30 minutes in Ubuntu? It's easy in Windows, but Ubuntu doesn't seem to have a way to do that. At least, not with a handy GUI interface. During this heat, I figured my laptop might be slightly cooler if I could spin the hard disk down when it wasn't being used.
From the command line you can do it with hdparm. I'm not sure about setting it on startup or if there is a GUI available, will be watching this space to find out.
Had a quick look in /etc and my Ubunutu 8.04 has /etc/hdparm.conf which appears to be exactly what you want. Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz