[xubuntu-users] Hard drives and backup - Was: Am I the only one who still uses floppies?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:39:09 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
>Is it the actual software that makes the drive spin down, or do the
>drives do it themselves?

My Western Digital spins down and falls asleep if it wasn't touched for
30 minutes. It stays asleep if nothing touches it, unfortunately a lot
of software without reason does activate the drive. For SpaceFM this
can be disabled, while it's still possible to mount the drive by
mouse click. GVFS (GNOME, optional for Thunar) is a PITA and after
running a few KDE apps something does also cause this issue.

I already posted it, one developer fixed this issue! Most other
developers are not interested to fix it.

http://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/751/
https://github.com/lxde/libfm/commit/994a1e25ba0c3da80575fc002af17ab02ed5998b

Apps that have a hard dependency to GVFS still work without issues, if
the gvfs package is replaced by an empty dummy package.