On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:38:39PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Mounting an internally installed disk on a laptop spins up all
disks connected to this machine via USB. And I try to prevent these
externally connected disks to spin up.
The behaviour, IIRC, started a few months ago on the previous F27 and
continues now on F28. Before that I don't remember this behaviour to
have happened.
Solution:
systemctl mask --now smartd
So far this seems to work, here on Fedora at least: on Debian (same
computer, on a different disk) the problem seems to persist, in spite
of doing something similar to what I did on Fedora - maybe a result of
a different and even more buggy version on Debian. No idea, so far ...
I installed smartmontools, IINM, Jan 2017 - so I think this spinning
up of disks over the last few months might be a bug due to a new
version. Not being sure tho' ...
HTH
Regards,
Wolfgang