On Monday 18 November 2002 11:27, martin f krafft wrote: > my laptop harddrive makes a sound similar to drive access without > a lot of head movement every 5.5 seconds, lasting for 1.2 seconds > each. this is independent of noflushd running or not. i would be > interested to find out what's causing this. how to go about it? Are you running ext3, because if you are it is the journaling code that is causing this, it runs every 5 seconds. David