Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 16:11:34 +0000 From: stevieo <stevieo@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can I prevent touching the disk every 10 seconds? Message-ID: <200402141611.35059.stevieo@nyc.rr.com>
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How would I track down what is touching the hard drive every 10 or so seconds? It seems to be multiple things because the delay changes if I remove xmd from /etc/ttys, or if I add/remove the noatime option in /etc/fstab. To complicate matters, it sounds like the hard drive is seeking and then spins up when the disk is accessed. This is a laptop machine so I'd like to stop thing from happening for the power saving if nothing else.
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