Guide: How-to setup 'hd-idle' (a HDD spin down SW) together with the OMV plugin 'Autoshutdown' in OMV 5.x.

Everything looks good. If your drives don't spin down means some service is using them.

Quote from auanasgheps

If your drives don't spin down means some service is using them.

And how can I track down that service?

Hi, Sorry to ask a dumb question but do SSD's need to be spun down?

Quote from ohiskyy

And how can I track down that service?

It can be challenging and you'll need third party tools.

How many disks do you have and where OMV is installed? What apps/docker/plugins have you installed?

Note this is out of scope of the thread/guide.

Quote from STUKguy

Hi, Sorry to ask a dumb question but do SSD's need to be spun down?

No, they don't and simply don't have such feature, so don't worry about them.

Quote from ohiskyy

And how can I track down that service?

have a look at

"fatrace"

Quote from STUKguy

Hi, Sorry to ask a dumb question but do SSD's need to be spun down?

nope

Quote from macom

have a look at

"fatrace"

Thanks!

However, after installing fatrace I receive

Cannot initialize fanotify: Invalid argument

Is there a guide or something?

Hi, can you use this without using the Autoshutdown plug-in? How is it linked with it if it is? Thanks.

Quote from bnSevn

Hi, can you use this without using the Autoshutdown plug-in? How is it linked with it if it is? Thanks.

You don't need such plugin. Please refer to the new guide

Thanks for the reply. After I get a few more things in place I am going to give it a try. Greatly appreciate you putting together the guide - great help!

I have OMV 5.6.1 and trying to get hd-idle to spin down after 1800sec the service is up and running and was just updated to 1.13 What happens the disk idle for 540 seconds then resets to 0 something writes or reads every 540 seconds on all the disks.