Re: what's accessing my hard drive every few seconds?

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Hi;

I was the one that posted the first question about the regular accesses
to my hd. I tried both of the recommendations, killing magicdev, and
adding the "noatime" option on / in /etc/fstab. The "noatime" reduced
the size of the access from 25K to 16K, but it did not eliminate it.
Killing magicdev did not have any effect that I noticed.

So I did a complete format and install of rh9 to see if I had broken
something, but no, a fresh install has the same issue.

Gordon Messner points out that this is a Nautilus issue, and as it
happens, when I was using rh8 I used KDE, and now I use GNOME. So maybe
GNOME/Nautilus has been doing this all along?

-P

On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 18:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   (i recall someone asking something like this recently, but i managed
> to not save the response, if there was one.)
> 
>   on my dell inspiron 8100, when it's just sitting there idling, there
> is a regular blast of HD activity, just about every 5 seconds.  just
> a "tick tick" ... pause ... "tick tick"  etc etc.
> 
>   someone suggested that perhaps magicdev was responsible but i'm 
> not running magicdev.  i've looked through the list of running
> processes, and nothing jumps out at me as needing to regularly
> do disk activity.
> 
>   any hints?
> 
> rday
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