On Saturday 09 April 2005 09:33 pm, Neil Dugan wrote: > Hi > > 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. > > Using 'top -i' it seems that kjournald seems to be accessing the hard- > drive every few minutes. There is no man page for kjournald. > > What is kjournald? > Any ideas on locating what program is accessing the hard-drive if it > isn't kjournald? > > Regards Neil. There are many deamons that will do this syslogd, crond, updatedb, even iptables. This is actually normal house keeping for a Linux/Unix system. -- John H Ludwig
