I have a WD Passport and I can spin it down by doing sudo sdparm -C stop /dev/sdb but only if the drive is mounted. I don't know how safe this is since I do not know much about the purpose of mounting / unmount drives. One of the things I haven't done much research to understand. Which way is safer: pull the plug while it is spinning but unmounted, or spin it down while it is unmounted?
-- WD external drives need to be spun down, "sdparm --command=stop" doesn't work any more https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
