Turn off (spin down) external (USB) HDD on Linux

command-line usb linux power-management external-hard-drive

Short lookup in gnome-disk-utility repo code, and:

udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdX

In ArchLinux, /usr/bin/udisksctl is owned by udisks2 package.

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