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  • How have you found that it's to access these specific files under /etc that the disk spins up? Would the disk not spin up to e.g. store files used for the browser cache, or to perform ordinary logging operations? Commented Dec 17, 2022 at 9:30
  • If you are worried about power usage, just use a ssd. Your system is going to be reading much more than just the hosts file. There are many libs which will need to be paged in as you run programs and most of them will be in /lib & /usr/lib etc. Commented Dec 17, 2022 at 15:52