Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Install and Configure hd-idle on Fedora

hd-idle is a useful program if you want to spin down hard disks after a defined time period.
It is available in fedora repositories. Therefore you can install it using dnf command,

dnf install hd-idle

systemd unit file is available in below path,

/usr/lib/systemd/system/hd-idle.service

The configuration file is available in below path,

/etc/sysconfig/hd-idle

man page of hd-idle (man hd-idle) describes the usage of hd-idle program. It has capability to define a default idle time for all the disks and define idle time for disks individually.

The default log file path is,

/var/log/hd-idle/hd-idle.log

All the informatiion about this utility can be found here,

http://hd-idle.sourceforge.net/

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