Re: Find out what process access disk
Hi!
On Fri May 23, 2003 at 05:04:16PM +0200, mody@quick.cz wrote:
> I have well running Debian testing on my notebook. But there is a process
> which periodicaly access the disk. Unfurtunately I don't know which process
> does this. Because of this process, the disk wont stop and eats my battery
> power. How can I detect the process?
Sounds like the kernel's ext3 driver is fooling you ;-)
Per default it syncs in 5s intervals. In recent kernels you can add a
mount option to sync at specified intervals...
But ext3 is not (yet) useable for laptop work since it keeps your
harddisk working even if no process is using the disk. If you can manage
mount your harddisk as ext2 and noflushd will spin your harddisk down.
So long
Thomas
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