On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:55AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> 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?
Some time ago I had the same problem and came out with this script, that lists
files sorted by access time:
#!/bin/sh
# Script ideas courtesy of Jeff Coppock
# from the debian-laptop list
TIMEBACK=${1:-5}
EXCLUDE="-path /usr -prune -o -path /var/src -prune -o -path /var/opt/usr
-prune -o"
WORKFILE=/ram/report_disk_access
cat /dev/null > $WORKFILE
for P in / /var
do
find $P $EXCLUDE -mount -printf "%As %Ts %p\n" >> $WORKFILE
# echo "$P List:"
# find $P $EXCLUDE -mount -type d
# echo "$P: Accessed in the last $TIMEBACK minutes:"
# find $P $EXCLUDE -mount -amin $TIMEBACK
# echo "$P: Modified in the last $TIMEBACK minutes:"
# find $P $EXCLUDE -mount -mmin $TIMEBACK
done
Ciao,
Enrico
