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Cron.daily Spinning Up Disks
My disks are spinning up after sleeping even though no one was accessing my ReadyNAS Pro. Looking at the log files I came across the following. C:\System_log-nas-AB-12-34-20120829-094628\cron.l...
JosephAE wrote:
How would you send the results of “smartctl” to a log file so that it could be reviewed later?
Create a file somewhere, and then set it to executable (chmod 755 <filename>)
Then in cron.daily create a symlink to your file
#!/bin/sh
smartctl smartctl -i -n standby /dev/sda >> /var/log/smartctl.log
But I dont think this is worthwhile.
I imagine as soon as you try writing to a log file, its going to spin the disks up anyway, so the log will contain nothing useful.
Have you thought of just using Frontview to schedule your NAS to shut down each night?
If you dont want the disks spinning at night, then it cant be doing much useful anyway
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