Re: GNOME perodically accesses my disk

[SeriousMan <veryserious gmail com>]

> 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