Re: Laptop and hard drive spin in GNOME 2.x

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:30:49PM -0800, George Farris wrote:
> I have RH8.0 installed on my laptop and when logged into my desktop
> (GNOME) the drive light blips very 5 seconds or so.  I remember someone
> else reporting this.  Is there a known problem here?

This could be as simple as the fact that you are using an ext3
filesystem, so it goes to disk every five seconds.

Malcolm

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