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After being inactive for about an hour, my Seagate 3TB hard disk becomes inaccessible to programs (such as Deluge). The moment any file/directory related tasks are initiated nautilus prompts me with a window showing the contents of that drive, but other programs depending on the storage space have been interrupted beforehand when the drive was considered inactive. Is there any way to keep the hard disk running regardless of user activity?

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File system: ext4
Operating system: linux 3.13

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If all else fails, you can do a cronjob every 59 minutes that copies a file of minimum size on your hard disk, thus creating disk activity. –  private_meta Jun 16 at 8:22
I'll probably try that. –  Ruben Jun 16 at 9:18

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hdparm -S0 /dev/sdX

from man:

          these values.
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