gvfs spins up sleeping HDD even if all partitions unmounted

[Emile D]

Hi,

On my laptop I use :
 * a SSD for boot and all tasks
 * a HDD for storing big files

The HDD is spun down at startup and the corresponding filesystem is unmounted. I succeed in disabling all services making the HDD periodically wake up.

The only problem is that this HDD spins up when I launch thunar for the first time. If I close thunar, spin down the disk, then launch thunar again, the disk stays in sleep mode...

I found this thread without answer talking about the same issue :
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11270

Is there a way to disable thunar first access to umounted partition ?

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I first reported this bug here :

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14998

I investigated with help from thunar developers and it appears that this bug is coming from gvfs, because it desapear when I remove gvfs and use thunar without gvfs extension, and it exists also for nautilus (other soft using gvfs).

Thank you for your help.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you maybe report it as well to the gvfs upstream gitlab?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/issues

[Emile D (al-info)]

Thank you for the advice, it's hard to find the right place for a bug report.

I opened a report here : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/issues/375

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks