RE: Finding what is accessing drive?

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• Subject: RE: Finding what is accessing drive?
• From: "Brian Gaynor" <briang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:05:44 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> I have a small computer with FC3 installed on a ext3 partition, being
> used as a PostgreSQL database server.
> 
> I setup hdparm to turn off the hard-drive, but something is accessing
> the hard-drive making it stay on.

It's the EXT3 journaling. As I recall you can set how frequently it updates,
default is something like every 5 seconds.

Brian

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