Re: GNOME perodically accesses my disk

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Don't worry, this is fine AFAIK. The GNOME Desktop got some daemons,
> that periodically sync data to disk. This probably happens even some
> more, depending on your currently running applications.

*sigh*  This is what you get for posting before having a sane dose of
caffeine. I stand corrected. Having a close look at my HDD LED tells me,
it isn't accessed every few seconds. I should have known better. Sorry
for the noise.

Please see attached message. [1]

...guenther


[1] Please reply to the list. At least, Cc it. :)


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• From: SeriousMan <veryserious gmail com>
• To: guenther <guenther rudersport de>
• Subject: Re: GNOME perodically accesses my disk
• Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 18:48:23 +0200

> Don't worry, this is fine AFAIK. The GNOME Desktop got some daemons,
> that periodically sync data to disk. This probably happens even some
> more, depending on your currently running applications.
>

No, i had this issue (accessing the hd every five seconds), and got it
resolved. Try googling it, but certainly not ignoring. For example,
you can add noatime to the mount options in fstab. Sometimes the UID
and GID of / are wrong, try chmodding / to root.root

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