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Re: tracing disk accesses



Douglas Bates writes:
> My laptop running Debian 2.0 seems to be making fairly regular
> accesses to the hard drive - every 15-20 seconds I would say, even
> when there is no user-initiated activity but I do have an X server
> running and am logged in.

update? Doesn't the system write back changed data at that interval?

But there's quite a lot of other possibilities:

watchdog, syslog, ...

Michael


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