On 16Jun2021 10:17, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:46:42 +0100 >Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> I haven't seen any errors, so it's probably a feature rather than a >> bug >> with this drive. > >I have two USB drives on my system, and one of them takes about >30 seconds to spin up. It is very annoying when I'm rebooting the >system but it decides it has to spin up the unmounted drive >before it can finish. I can understand the need to scan everything >when it boots up, but can't imagine why it needs to scan everything >on the way down.
I've seen systems need to spin up drive to umount then - to sync the fs. Even for an idle fs the kernel seems to want something, maybe formally closing a journal or something? To test, do a sync, wait for the drive to spin down, then umount. See what happens during the umount. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
