#!/bin/bash # Function to display usage show_usage() { echo "Usage: $0 [option]" echo "Options:" echo " 1 Spin down drives (-y)" echo " 2 Check drive activity (-C)" exit 1 } # Check if an option is provided if [ -z "$1" ]; then show_usage fi # Get the boot drive (mounted as root /) BOOT_DRIVE=$(df / | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/[0-9]//g') # Determine the operation based on user input case "$1" in 1) # Spin down drives, excluding the boot drive for drive in /dev/sd[a-z]; do if [[ "$drive" != "$BOOT_DRIVE" ]]; then sudo hdparm -y $drive fi done ;; 2) # Check drive activity, excluding the boot drive for drive in /dev/sd[a-z]; do if [[ "$drive" != "$BOOT_DRIVE" ]]; then sudo hdparm -C $drive fi done ;; *) show_usage ;; esac