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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:33:47 +0100
From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>
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Subject: Tracing Disk Activity
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Hello,

I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no
user activity there are frequent disk accesses.
How can one trace disk access?
I'd like to know the kind of access and on which files/directories/
nodes. I'd like to log on the console or on a memory disk file.

-Hanspeter