Enrico Zini, 2003-Mar-23 16:56 +0100: > Hello, > > I've just setup noflushd and finally can enjoy to hear that damn hard > drive to spin down after a while it's not in use. However, a few > seconds after spin down, to my great frustration it spins up again, > resuming that fastidious noise. Obviously, I wasn't doing anything to > justify that spin up: I wasn't even touching the laptop. > > I've already tried to shut down the services that I thought could be the > cause for this, but the spinups continue. > > Do you know if there's a way, like some kernel facility, to track what's > doing these disk accesses? I would avoid me some long trial and error, > and it would be the definitive tool to use in this investigation: I'd be > really happy to use it.
I had the same problem on my noisy older Dell Latitude. I was informed that using the find command, shown below, will help narrow down the field: Find all the files that have been accessed in the last 5 minutes: # find / -mount -type f -amin 5 Find all files that have been modified in the last 5 minutes: # find / -mount -type f -mmin 5 Find all the directories accessed in the last 5 minutes: # find / -mount -amin 5 Find all the directories modified in the last 5 minutes: # find / -mount -mmin 5 I ran into issues with CUPS and Postfix. I was able to change CUPS, and ended up moving from Postfix to Exim. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
