Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:11:56AM -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Well, that's interesting, about making sure it's stopped. I've asked >> here a month or two ago, and got no responses: my manager has me using >> pmount/pumount to mount the hard drives I'm putting in the eSATA drive >> bay for offline backups. Formerly, I used mount/umount, and when I >> umounted it, and walked downstairs, mostly, esp the green drives, were >> spun down. I pumount... and *nothing* spins down. They stay spinning, >> which is obvious, as I can feel the gyroscopic action as I pop them >> out immediately after hitting the button to turn off the power >> to the drive. >> >> That box is running CentOS 7. > > Just to note, `pmount' is an EPEL package, not a CentOS package. Fine. And you're suggesting that we don't mention those, or elrepo, here? Is anyone else using pmount? mark