[SOLVED] Option Spin down HDD in Kodi not working on Rpi3

[Roy Terhaar]

(7th Apr, 2016 07:24 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  Nothing has been changed since months. So I suppose that there is a process accessing this disk permanently.

You could watch file /proc/diskstats if there are any r/w operations

For example:

Terminal

cat /proc/diskstats | grep sda
8 0 sda 215763 2413 51477370 1340940 7516 668 7457608 3913710 0 1017580 5252710
8 1 sda1 215573 2411 51473410 1288560 7232 668 7457608 3913160 0 982210 5232440

shows you the stats of disk sda

See also here

This is the output for both harddisks:
xbian@xbian ~ $ cat /proc/diskstats | grep sda
8 0 sda 2382 0 246101 15146 0 0 0 0 0 4572 15142
8 1 sda1 178 0 3120 576 0 0 0 0 0 562 576
8 2 sda2 2079 0 242432 13996 0 0 0 0 0 4316 13992
xbian@xbian ~ $ cat /proc/diskstats | grep sdb
8 16 sdb 1608 0 129432 8118 0 0 0 0 0 3370 8114
8 17 sdb1 1554 0 128136 7782 0 0 0 0 0 3216 7778

Column 12 is showing 0 (no current IO).
I also did reboot but no change noticable; harddisks keep spinning.

I also noticed that the menu is showing the configured delay time (-delay (min)) of 1 minute now.
Isn't it a design miss that you have to edit the usbmount.conf file first manualy before you can actually use the menu option?