Re: which process is accessing my hard drive?
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:25:57PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
> See what "lsof" (list open files) has to say.
>
Interesting command. It seems a little bit beyond me... is there a
way to sort the output by access time as well? the list of files is
fairly long -- 258 lines even with a minimum set of processes
running...
(output attached, hope it's not annoying)
thx,
matt
> Curt-
>
> On Monday 01 March 2004 11:35, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power
> > efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I
> > don't use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and
> > atd. Pretty much the only thing I have running is emacs (see the
> > output of ps, attached). But somehow the hard drive keeps spinning
> > back up spontaneously. Who's accessing my hard drive?? I don't have
> > the slightest idea how to find out, or (even better) figure out how
> > to stop it from happening.
> >
> > Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> > thx,
> > matt
>
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