I'm using Ubuntu 21.04
I don't want my HDDs to go idle at all. For the process I'm doing I never want them to sleep. So I have hd-idle installed.
If I run hd-idle -i 0 my understanding is that none of the HDD will go idle. My first question is, is that correct?
Secondly, I want this to be the case even on reboots.
I updated my file here: /etc/default/hd-idle thusly:
# defaults file for hd-idle
# start hd-idle automatically?
START_HD_IDLE=true
# hd-idle command line options
# Options are:
# -a <name> Set device name of disks for subsequent idle-time
# parameters (-i). This parameter is optional in the
# sense that there's a default entry for all disks
# which are not named otherwise by using this
# parameter. This can also be a symlink
# (e.g. /dev/disk/by-uuid/...)
# -i <idle_time> Idle time in seconds.
# -l <logfile> Name of logfile (written only after a disk has spun
# up). Please note that this option might cause the
# disk which holds the logfile to spin up just because
# another disk had some activity. This option should
# not be used on systems with more than one disk
# except for tuning purposes. On single-disk systems,
# this option should not cause any additional spinups.
#
# Options not exactly useful here:
# -t <disk> Spin-down the specfified disk immediately and exit.
# -d Debug mode. This will prevent hd-idle from
# becoming a daemon and print debugging info to
# stdout/stderr
# -h Print usage information.
HD_IDLE_OPTS="-i 0 -l /var/log/hd-idle.log"
Will that make it so that all connected HDDs won't go idle at all?
