Run top to see what process is running at the time. As Wade suggested, it is most likely updatedb. Regards, Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wade Chandler" <wchandler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:26 PM Subject: Re: HD Noise > Carter J. Castor wrote: > > > I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; > > however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. > > I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits > > by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to > > suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it. > > > > > It is probably running updatedb. This is what locate uses. This gives > you very fast file searches using the locate command. If you haven't > ever heard of locate or used it then you can probably disable this > without a care. > > Wade > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
