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SPINDOWN(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual SPINDOWN(1)

spindown —
SCSI/firewire harddrive spindown daemon

spindown [-Db] [-p pidfile] [-d device] [-t seconds] [-i seconds]

The spindown daemon automatically spins down firewire / SCSI drives that have been idle for a specified amount of time. Each drive can be assigned a maximum idle time independently.

The following options are available:

runs spindown in debug mode, preventing it from daemonizing
makes spindown run in the background
pidfile
a device to be monitored (multiple devices may be specified) The idle time at which the drive will spin down is the time specified by the last -t parameter before this -d option. This way idle times can be set independently for each device.
idle time at which a device will spin down (defaults to 600 seconds) this option can be specified more than one. -d options specified will use the last -t option encountered before the -d option itself.
check interval. This is the interval between device activity checks (defaults to 60 seconds)

Monitor devices da0 and da1 and spin down the devices after 5 and 10 minutes respectively, with a check interval of five minutes.

spindown -b -i 300 -t 300 -d da0 -t 600 -d da1

camcontrol(8), firewire(4)

The spindown utility was originally written by Arjan van der Velde ⟨noresult@noresult.net⟩.
November 28, 2008 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE
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