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I don't think the way you mount wakes up the NAS - but I may be wrong
What exactly does this mean?
Check the system logs > messages Every twenty minutes (can be changed but that is the default) the syslog daemon writes --MARK-- to show it's awakeI have noticed periodically the drive wakes up without any activity.
If you have placed the logs on the NAS, well ....
There may be other daemons that write on a regular schedule
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Let them be - or it will not mount (well it does not necessary have to be zeros)Do I need to remove the "0 0" at the end
See man fstab fstab has and extensive man page
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The permissions problem - is is just for images?
The mount is in home with user in the line so you should own the NAS unless there are folders belonging to someone else in it
Be careful with sudo if you try to fix this so you do not unintentionally make root the owner - I've made that mistake a couple of times
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mtu 7500 careful - you want come an inch on the internet with that mtu I think
But if that's no problem it's fairly easy to fix - see
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... =a#p127456
but that gives the new mtu to that interface so if it's used for internet.....
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I think you can disable the built in card in BIOS
If not run lspci -v to identify which module and driver it uses
It is then possible to blacklist these if they are not used by something else