On 4/13/05 8:01 AM, first last wrote: > I am running centos on a laptop and the HD keeps on making noises every > so often, even when I go to runlevel 1 and stop everything that could > be doing so (hotplug, smartd, cron, anacron, atd, syslogd...). > > Is there any way of finding out what is accessing the disk? Not only it > shortens battery life, it is annoying while working in a quiet room. My hunch is that it's kjournald. Do you have ext3 filesystems on that machine? You can test it: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump # wait for disk access to occur dmesg Once you're done, poke 0 into the block_dump setting to stop your kernel log from overflowing. :-) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com