How To Install spindown on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spindown on Fedora 36.
What is spindown
Spindown is a daemon that can spin idle disks down and thus save energy and improve disk lifetime. It periodically checks for read or written blocks. When no blocks are read or written the disk is idle. When a disk stays idle long enough, spindown uses custom command like sg_start or hdparm to spin it down. It also works with USB disks and hot-swappable disks because it doesn’t watch the device name (hda, sdb, …), but the device ID. This means that it doesn’t matter if the disk is swapped while the daemon is running.
We can use yum or dnf to install spindown on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spindown.
Install spindown on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install spindown using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spindown
Install spindown on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install spindown using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spindown
How To Uninstall spindown on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the spindown package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spindown
spindown Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/spindown.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/8da1c3b323ead99a6307c0a59b3dba90d52ca6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/spindown.service
/usr/lib64/pm-utils/sleep.d/01spindown
/usr/sbin/spindownd
/usr/share/doc/spindown
/usr/share/doc/spindown/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/spindown/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spindown/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spindown on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).