#1120847 smartmontools: smartd spinning up sleeping harddrives

Package:
smartmontools
Source:
smartmontools
Description:
control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.
Submitter:
kubriel
Date:
2025-11-19 09:17:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1120847#5
Date:
2025-11-17 13:24:53 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading to Trixie i realized that harddrive in my laptop, (which is normaly sleeping) is spun up by smartd checking disks. As purpose of smartd is to pretect disks, this beaviour is doing the oposite.
-n standby in config file doesnt help.
#1120847#10
Date:
2025-11-19 09:15:46 UTC
From:
To:
Smartmontools is one thing spinning up my harddrives, and today i found
that fwupd is the other. Wasnt happening in bookworm.

k