On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 21:56 -0400, jludwig wrote: > 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 Yes I understand that many things could be doing the access. I am looking for finding out what is doing the access, maybe I don't need it, and it can be disabled. It doesn't seem to be syslogd (the /var/log/messages isn't expanding), it isn't crond (nothing is due to run), and updatedb is triggered by cron (witch isn't, and not so regulaly). Because I am running lcd4linux, which was reading stuff from the hard drive every few seconds I remounted the partition with the option of 'noatime'. So I would expect that whatever is accessing the hard drive is doing a write. I tried to find the file with the command 'date;ls -at --full-time | head' but this didn't seem to get me anywhere. Any ideas on how to track down what is causing the access? Regards Neil.
