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Created July 6, 2013 09:25
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Save battery by spinning down the secondary harddrive and exclude it from Spotlight indexing
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spindown.sh
# spindown after 1 minute of inactivity
sudo pmset -a disksleep 1
# disable spotlight indexing and searching
sudo mdutil -d /Volumes/Your_Secondary_Harddrive
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