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Bug 553112 - Nautilus wakes up external drives which are not being used
Nautilus wakes up external drives which are not being used
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-21 12:04 UTC by matmoser
Modified: 2008-09-22 11:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description matmoser 2008-09-21 12:04:23 UTC 
I have an USB harddisk connected, which shows up and gets automounted in Nautilus. The drive goes to sleep after approximately 10 minutes if it is not being used.
If I open Nautilus in the top folder of the mountpoint (let's say the disk is mounted as /media/usbdisk, then I'd open /media) or if I open a folder which has a symlink to /media/usbdisk/* in it, then the disk will wake up, even though it's not actively used.

It would be great to be turn that off, so that the disk stays asleep as long as I am not actively opening a folder on that disk...

Other information:
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-09-21 12:09:56 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 535609 ***
Comment 2 matmoser 2008-09-21 14:55:16 UTC 
I am not sure if this is a duplicate of bug 535609, since the one deals with putting a disk to sleep on unmount and the other (553112) is concerned with not waking a disk up if not necessary which has nothing to do with (un)mounting or putting the disk into sleep mode...
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2008-09-22 11:06:29 UTC 
It is definitly not a duplicate.

Nautilus tries to find out the number of items in the directory /media/usbdisk, so the disk has to be spun up.

It can be disabled by setting the
  Folders -> Count number of items
preference on the “Preview” tab of the preference window to “Never”.
Comment 4 matmoser 2008-09-22 11:28:19 UTC 
Danke...exactly what I was searching for!