How To Install spindown on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spindown on Fedora 34.
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 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spindown.
Install spindown on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install spindown using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spindown
Install spindown on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 34
To uninstall only the spindown package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spindown
spindown Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/spindown.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/cb57b96f1325fd780e72c358347f9c96afb37c
/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 34 using yum and dnf.