HD Noise

[Ben Halicki]

Run top to see what process is running at the time.  As Wade suggested, it
is most likely updatedb.

Regards,

Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wade Chandler" <wchandler at redesetgrow.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: HD Noise


> 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
>
>
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