My disk will not go into standby. After several hours f testing I have found that if I do the following:
/etc/rc2.d/S20samba stop the drive will go into standby. I;ve found that when samba is running
that the disk is written twice every minute. The following script if run with a parameter of 10 will
display 8 0 0 and 24 0 0 once every minute.
I can’t determine what file is written. But If I stop samba my drive will go into stanby for up to a few hours
before it will wake up again. If you look at the /var/log/user.log file you will see the following message.
Mar 1 15:02:18 LauralandHardy logger: exit standby after 626 (since 2015-03-01 14:51:52.811036001 -0500)
This message shows that the drive exited standby mode at 15:02:18 after having entered standby 626 seconds
ago at 14:51:52
Save this code as check.sh and then sh check.sh 10
while :; do
iow_root=awk -v disk="md1" '{if ($3==disk) print $10}' /proc/diskstats
ior_datavol=awk -v disk="sda4" '{if ($3==disk) print $6}' /proc/diskstats
iow_datavol=awk -v disk="sda4" '{if ($3==disk) print $10}' /proc/diskstats
d=date +%k-%M-%S
let a=iow_root-iow_rootold
let b=ior_datavol-ior_datavolold
let c=iow_datavol-iow_datavolold
echo $d “root” $iow_root “datavol” $ior_datavol “datavol” $iow_datavol $a $b $c
iow_rootold=$iow_root
iow_datavolold=$iow_datavol
ior_datavolold=$ior_datavol
sleep $1
done
