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SPINDOWN(1) General Commands Manual SPINDOWN(1) NAME spindown -- SCSI/firewire harddrive spindown daemon SYNOPSIS spindown [-Db] [-p pidfile] [-d device] [-t seconds] [-i seconds] DESCRIPTION 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: -D runs spindown in debug mode, preventing it from daemonizing -b makes spindown run in the background -p pidfile -d 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. -t idle time at which a device will spin down (defaults to 600 sec- onds) this option can be specified more than one. -d options speci- fied will use the last -t option encountered before the -d option itself. -i check interval. This is the interval between device activity checks (defaults to 60 seconds) EXAMPLES Monitor devices da0 and da1 and spin down the devices after 5 and 10 min- utes respectively, with a check interval of five minutes. spindown -b -i 300 -t 300 -d da0 -t 600 -d da1 SEE ALSO camcontrol(8), firewire(4) AUTHORS The spindown utility was originally written by Arjan van der Velde <noresult@noresult.net>. FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly November 28, 2008 SPINDOWN(1)
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