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udisks package

  1. Bug #1899361
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1899361

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john reid (reidjr) wrote :

This problem is still in 20.04.1, but appears to have been fixed in master udisk2, patching from 10 mins to 60 mins.

https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/407#ref-commit-326b182

I assume this is in 21.x, but not available in LTS (?)

As a workaround, you can turn off the smarts function in Gnome-disks [Disks] GUI, which stops the polling through udisk2, and disables smarts on the disk. You can then re enable SMARTs on the individual drives with:

smartctl -s enable /dev/sdX.

smartmontools or other smartd tools will then work, with a configurable polling frequency if you need SMARTs. This does not re enable Disks udisk2 based polling, so the disks now sleep.