Kay Sievers escribió:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 16:43, Tom <tomgparchaur@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I have a spare hard disk I don't touch the most of the time. Due to a
>> strange reason, a change uevent is triggered some random time of the day
>> (like 4 or more times) and then, of course, udev apply the rules, being
>> one of them a rule which runs vol_id which then wakes up my spinned-down
>> hard disk (debugged with echoing a 1 to /proc/sys/vm/block_dump and
>> udevadm monitor).
> 
> Does "monitor" show a kernel event, or only a udev event?
>
> Any other events at the same time?
> 
I don't remember exactly (if I remember correctly, it was one uevent
everytime). Here I attach the logs. Later I could tell you better. I
will be more aware of that.

> Are you running smartd?
Yes, but I have smartd configured to ignore the hard disk if it's in
standby. In syslog I have:
smartd[7004]: Device: /dev/sda, is in STANDBY mode, suspending checks

And thanks for answering so fast (and wasting your time too).

> 
> Kay