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You don't even need magic packets from a dedicated machine for wake on lan for some NIC's. For example on linux using `ethtool -s enp3s0 wol pug` will wake the
by dugite-code 4y ago
You don't even need magic packets from a dedicated machine for wake on lan for some NIC's. For example on linux using `ethtool -s enp3s0 wol pug` will wake the system on p (PHY activity), u (unicast activity) and g (magic packet activity). Of course this is entirely dependent on how "noisy" your network is.
This is something I've been thinking about for some time as I'm working on re-building my homelab for a more powerful system with more storage. On of the big things I'm trying to find out is if there is a good way of truly shutting off hard drives when not in use or if the hit to longevity of the drives would be too much.
source https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN
- Youden 4y agoI've been shutting off my hard drives but found that anything short of unmounting them caused them to be awoken frequently by random processes with timer-based disk access. My solution was to move all my online use-cases to a separate SSD and mount the HDDs only when I need them for a manual process. E.g. when I want to watch a movie I have downloaded, I'll mount the disk pool and copy it to the SSD (although my internet is fast enough that just downloading it again is usually faster than the manual process).
- bombolo 4y agoI was doing it and it worked fine. But I'd just keep the served content on the disk. Of course not /var.