navigating in nautilus causes external drives to spin up
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nautilus |
New
|
Low
|
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
Installed: 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1:
500 http://
PROBLEM:
Mounting my external drives and not using them for a while causes them to spin down. After this happens, trying to navigate in any open nautilus window will cause both of them to spin up. Navigating the file system in a terminal does not cause this behavior.
I'm worried this useless spin-up behavior is reducing my drives' life times. Navigating nautilus while they are spun up does not appear to cause any file access on them (their 'activity' indicators are unaffected) so I can't tell what's up.
WHAT YOU EXPECTED TO HAPPEN:
As long as I'm not actually browsing my drives, and nothing needs to access them, I expect them to stay spun down.
WHAT HAPPENED INSTEAD:
Any use of nautilus when the drives are spun down causes them to spin up.
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
status: | Triaged → New |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
status: | Fix Released → New |
Thank you for your bug report. What sort of disks are those? Do you get the issue in nautilus only or a fileselector in gedit does the same for example?