I have a NAS box that runs Ubuntu Server and Samba. 4 of the HDDs are in RAID5 (/dev/md1) and I've configured them to spin down after 10 minutes of inactivity. This filesystem is mounted on /share/Media. The other 2 HDDs are NOT configured to spin down. My other computer runs Ubuntu Desktop. I'm mounting the entire /share folder (that's located on NAS) using this entry in /etc/fstab:
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Is there a way to auto mount partitions or SATA HDDs on startup, using 10.10?
I have no problems reading the drives.
I have my box setup as a router/NAT with two different network cards. One for external connection(connected to the Cable Modem) one for internal connection(used for internal DHCP). It works perfectly when I manually activate the two interfaces after booting(both interfaces always show up as inactive after booting), then the DHCP server and firewall. I am confused, however, by which program has control of these interfaces.
First, there is the Network Configuration (System->Administration->Network), which is where I manually start the interfaces after rebooting. Both interfaces are set to "Activate when computer starts" in here.
Second, Network Device control(System->Administration->Network Device Control), which looks to be almost the same thing as the above.
Third, the NetworkManager applet(on the top bar) - both devices show up as unmanaged when I left click on this, but if I set "Controlled by Network Manager" in the "Network configuration" window(number one above), It still does not work. Can I get rid of two of these programs, or is there some way to edit the startup scripts to start my ethernet cards before the dhcp server/firewall(which is shorewall BTW)?
I come here as a technical PC user and fan of the Ubuntu forums ^^..I am the current owner of a Western Digital Portable HDD - Blue - 320 GB (Advertised).Recently, I have discovered I had bad sectors (Which were remapped I guess according to Ubuntu's Disk Utility-message that popped up in the upper right)... How is something I don't know because I have already had it replaced due to an internal busted USB port, and have taken really good care of it.Well, I right-clicked in My Computer on the drive (Windows XP) and ran Windows Error Checking on it. It took over a day and finally came up with a failure message. During the test, the drive made funky (yes, funky) noises and now is inaccessible. (It will NOT spin up, or show up as a drive in XP ANYWHERE (Including Device Manager) [but it does go into sleep mode o.0])
I do not have my files backed up, and this is so because this IS my backup =. (Or.. 'Temporary File Storage' for the critics out there.)I have access to WinXP, Vista, Ubuntu, Mac OSX, and Win7, and the bottom line is that I don't know what to do.. I bought it at Walmart (about $100) and also a replacement plan.. but the thing is, I'm not sure if it is dead, and whether or not I can somehow recover my files without disassembly..I'm thinking that maybe the Sata / USB internal interface is dead, but wouldn't putting it into another enclosure void the warrantee?Help? (I'm sorry in advance if this has been posted in the past... I would just like to know what I should do)I know this involves Windows, but from reading what I have, I have determined that this forum has more intelligent people than any other.
there is a simple command like: Code: yum spininstall "name spin" that allows you to install all packages with a simple command? it would be nice if there :-)
View 3 Replies View RelatedI realize this has been asked many times before, but I'm fairly certain I've read through the majority of those threads and haven't found a working solution yet. I recently built up a Ubuntu Server 10.10 x64 box for backups, serving up files, and development activities. The server is running SATA drives in AHCI mode. Because this is a file server I have quite a few hard drives installed, which are currently a mix of WD 1TB Black and Green drives. I'm attempting to get my non-boot/data only drives to spin down after 10 minutes. I've tried the following:
1. Edit hdparm.conf with the following, replacing 'b' with the identifier for each disk:
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/dev/sdb {
spindown_time = 120
}
This fails, and based on my research I'm pretty sure udev isn't properly running the hdparm configuration anyway.
2. I've also tried manually setting the spin down time with hdparm as follows (via command line and through rc.local):
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hdparm -q -S 120 /dev/sdb
Which states that it successfully set the spin down timer to 10 minutes, but this also fails as the drive never spins down.
3. Finally, I just forced it to spin down immediately with:
Code:
hdparm -y /dev/sdb
This worked! Unfortunately, that approach isn't terribly useful. The drive stayed spun down for 20 minutes (thus far), so I haven't bothered to run iostat, etc to try and figure out if something is keeping the drives active. I don't believe there is because one of my drives isn't even mounted currently and it also won't spin down automatically.
(Ubuntu 10.10) I went to System->Preferences->Power Management and checked spin down hard disks whet possible. I have two internal sata hard drives. One is for the OS and the other is for media. Neither Hard disk is being spun down. Is there something else I need to do?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have used the following code for HDD spindown.
Quote:
{
#ifndef WIN_STANDBYNOW1
#define WIN_STANDBYNOW1 0xE0
#endif
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Is ther any ioctl command to do HDD spin-up from spin-down? or Is there any way to HDD spin-up?
Ubuntu is not spinning-down my external hard drive when idle. How can I enable this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm running 10.10 with about 10 SATA disks attached. If I spin them down with hdparm -Y, every disk that has a filesystem on it (but -not- disks that are partitioned but have no filesystem) spin up, simultaneously, about every 10 hours. How do I find the culprit? The machine is sitting effectively idle---I know it's not something I'm doing that's causing the spinups.Is there some way to monitor -anything- that touches a particular block device?
My suspicion is that this might be the gnome low-disk-space warning daemon statting everything. (This -used- to be gnome-volume-manager, but I'm not sure where that code went when GVM was dropped in 10.10---how do I find that code? What package is it in?)
And if it -is- the disk-space monitor, how do I kill it dead? Not just "don't tell me about disks", but "don't even bother looking". I would -really- like these drives to spin down and -stay- down, possibly for days or weeks, until needed---not spin up every 10 hours until I either manually spin them down or until whatever I've set in hdparm spins them back down.
Does fedora 12 lxde spin have opeoffice.org?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSystem Specs
3.2 GHz Dell GX280
Sans Digital TR5M-B in JBOD configuration (PCIe 1x)
CentOS 5.4 installed via QmailToaster instructions. Up to date via YUM.
No GUI (no KDE/Gnome), command line only.
My old server died and reinstalled based on above with no problems. All is running well. Box is used as mail/web/home disk network. I want to be able to spin down the drives in the Sans Digital box when idle as they are used mostly for bulk storage (video editing, etc...). The external enclosure on my old server automatically spun down idle drives so this has never been a concern. Google has not helped me so far (operator error?). I did see "hdparm" may work if the drives support it but I am not sure if this is the nest solution.
change as I salvaged an old old computer and got it back into working order. Windows 7 kills the computer and the media being served is sluggish and slow.
The computer spec are as follows:
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Bios 1303
Asus Nvidia En210
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I have two HDs, one is a 80gb OS drive(Parallel ATA) and the other is a 1T storage drive (SATA). Well after each reboot they swap between /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, over and over again. One boot the OS is /dev/sda and the next its /dev/sdb, same goes for the second drive. This makes it difficult to setup fstab so it will mount the large storage drive on boot.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm having a little trouble with a mdadm RAID array at the moment in which the four hard drives in the array change their /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd/ /dev/sde placement on every reboot.
View 5 Replies View RelatedRecently installed Ubuntu, I've got 2 * 500GB HDDs, mounted and partitioned, but I don't have read/write access to them, only root does.. How can i get access to save files and create folders etc?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've installed the Xfce spin of Fedora 14 (64). The Panel (or main task bar) has several icons by default and as most people. I like to add/remove and move the different items and shortcuts. I can add and remove, however moving items I cannot. When I right-click and select 'Move', the Panel turns gray, in fact it's completely grayed out, like locked. For info, it was absolutely fine in F13.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want a automatic login in my system with fedora 15 LXDE Spin. I followed the steps given in this thread but it doesn't work. There is no login screen option in administration also. What should I do?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have read others getting Grub error 2, but i cant fix the problem. I have 2 sata HDDs. I suspect the problem is something to do with RAID?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy reality distortion field went through a polarity shift today, and nothing's been working like it should. After the 10,000th problem, I decided to just make room for a fresh lucid install and the accompanying stability. It worked well, then I had some sort of a boot error upon reboot. So then I just decided to reinstall. The problem is that neither of my 2 internal HDDs is registering. Currently sda is an 80GB drive with a slackware install, sdb is a 120GB with a 60GB mint partition and (upon previous install) 60GB lucid partition. I've got no important data on any of my partitions yet, but also no net connection. I have install dvds for lucid, mint kde 9, and slackware plus a gparted live. I'm seriously considering making this machine a slack standalone, but then I've got legacy nvidia drivers to deal with.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have my current computer set up with 2 HDDs in it. A 500GB with GRUB and Windows 7 on it and a 160GB HDD with Ubuntu on it.
I would like to someone replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu on the 500GB drive, but I'm not sure how I would be able to do this and still keep GRUB and such .
EDIT: I'd like to do this without re-installing anything.
I have a WD20EZRX (Green) 3.5" hard drive installed in an external USB3 case (Icy Box IB-351StU3S-B), which is detected as an AS2105 device in Debian 7 (Linux 3.13 from back ports). My computer is a TP X200s. The problem is that the hard drive does not spin down even with hdparm -S timeout set and the file system unmounted. It does spin down with the hdparm -y command, though, and stays that way until accessed. The case also seems to prevent the TP entering standby mode, or at least the indication light is left blinking when the lid is closed. Other than this, the drive works fine. It does have a GPT partition scheme and ext3 file system.
Note that the TP does have only USB2 ports.
I have installed a LXDE F14 spin into my laptop cause I its older, the thing is that I would like to use Gnome login screen, like where you choose your desktop management and insert your password. I have gnome installed as well..
PS. or can I just update LXDE to the version that comes with F15 (I looked to it quickly and seemed cool) without fresh install ?
I want to install Fedora KDE spin on an existing XFS partition without formatting it. (Since said partition is full of my data that I have nowhere else to put). But the installer doesn't allow me to set the partition as / without formatting. XFS is not one of the filesystems listed as options for formatting. How can I make Fedora do what I want?
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo, I have raid5 array with one spare disk. Is it possible to spin-off/shutdown the spare disk until one drive fails and the spare disk is needed?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a wireless network adapter that I finally got working with Ubuntu 10.04, but now I have a question. Is it possible for the network adapter to connect to my network at startup, rather than waiting for NetworkManager to do it?I was able to do this in 9.04, but since Ubuntu started using upstart.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI work at a school where we are experimenting with Ubuntu 10.10. On our Windows machines, when the users sign in, their "U:" drive automatically mounts up so that can access their network shared storage. Is there a way to set this up in Linux so it automounts, rather than them have to go and find it out on the network every time?
View 2 Replies View Relatedthe startup of programs when i log into my Ubuntu Account.
My Operating System:
- Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (only using Gnome)
Programs at StartUp:
- Mozilla Thunderbird (2 email-accounts for business)
- Emesene (MSN Client for business use)
- FireStarter (I know it's just the GUI, but i love to view the Logging at realtime since Ubuntu is the Main-Server in my network)
Is it possible to configure the startup, so that the programs start running AFTER the Network Connection is established?
I'm new to the world of Ubuntu 10.10. My PC had windows Vista running on an 80GB HDD, and on Friday 03/12/10 I decided to install Ubuntu 10.10 on a second 160GB HDD. Wrongly I assumed I could simply have 2 HDD's in my PC and it would magically allow me to chose between Windows Vista and Ubuntu 10.10. Well that was 50 hours ago and I still can't get it to work. As you can see I have the results of my boot_info_script055.sh below.
PHP Code:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
Boot Info Summary:
Grub 2 isnstalled in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition # 1 for (,msdos1)/boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdbsda1:
File system: ext4 Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Operating System: Ubuntu 10.10
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub .....
i have a question regarding how data is placed on a media, for example the daily used hdd: when we talk about storage we often speak in heads sectors and cylinders. my question is if heads, sectors and cylinder is the true way data exists on a hdd platter?
lets take for example, disk_x
1000.2gb = 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track 121601 cylinders.
fdisk -H 128 -S 32 /dev/disk_x each cylinder will be shrank to 2097152bytes, number of cylinders will grow to 476934. but everything will be much more aligned and readable or there is something i don't know and i will loose almost half of the total sector count on the hdd cause 63-32=31. i asked the partitioner just to use 32 sectors from each track and only 128 tracks of the cylinder.
or another example, if i have a cluster size of 4k. why not making each track use 56 sectors or 7 clusters. theoretically i have all files in my storage and each one of them occupies 14 clusters isn't it wiser to make it as described. what happens when i invoke fdisk -h -s params? what will be changed, the disc physically and the way it is accessed or only the partition table? you probably asking your self what the hell does this dude wants? i want to get maximum i/outputs and the widest bandwidth and the nicest readble partition tables and to understand better fdisk -H -S.