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Spinning down external usb hard drives in Ubuntu doesn’t allways happen automatically in Ubuntu. To force a spindown, you can issue the command

sync
sdparm --flexible --command=stop /dev/sdX &>/dev/null

where you should replace the sdX entry by the correct name of your external hard drive (usually sdb, sdc or similar).
To do this automatically every 5 minutes, save the code below as e.g. ~/bin/spindown/spindown.sh.
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When working with websites, you often need to move files to-and-fro a ftp server. This is usually done using a dedicated ftp application such as gftp. In this long run, this is a very time consuming process so why not just mount the ftp drive as a directory in your home folder?
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In this howto, we will describe how to download all files of a specific type from a website. The first thing you need is to install wget

sudo apt-get install wget

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