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I wanted to set an interval of 10 minutes until spin down of my hard disc with gnome-disk-utility and got the above error. Google is most unhelpful pointing to mac woes. Anybody here with an idea?
Okay, I could do it with "hdparm -S 120 /dev/sdxy" but that seems, ah, inartistic. What might ail gnome-disk-utility?
Where is it trying to create the temp file at? Did the permissions on your /tmp get borked possibly? Or permissions issue on the location it's trying to open the file?
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 18.3+19.3, MX-18, Mandrake
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Originally Posted by Habitual
gnome-disks doesn't seem to have a spin-down option for any disk I've looked at.
Yes there is. Click on the leftmost symbol in the upper right corner of the window (3 horizontal lines on the button). Then chose "drive defaults .... E" (or some such, I don't use the English version) and you'll get a slide rule from 0 to >3 hours...
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