I managed to track the "offending" process down with "top" and a sharp look at the right moment and spotted the korganizer applet being active at the moment the HD spun up. Now that I removed the applet everything is back to normal again :)
Thanxs for your comments! - Martin On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, martin f krafft wrote:
Doesn't really help. It logs the hd activity, but still there is _some_ process running, which forces every 60 seconds the HD to spin up:You may want to peruse lsof and get periodic outputs to compare. I know of no tool that does disk monitoring or the like.