HD Noise

[Wade Chandler]

Carter J. Castor wrote:

> I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop.  The hard drive is very quite all day;
> however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. 
> I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits
> by my bed on my desk all night.  I was wondering what would cause it to
> suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it.
> 
> 
It is probably running updatedb.  This is what locate uses.  This gives 
you very fast file searches using the locate command.  If you haven't 
ever heard of locate or used it then you can probably disable this 
without a care.

Wade