[CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jul 8 00:14:51 UTC 2008
Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:35 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> I have a Centos installed on a Hitachi 2.5" drive that shuts off really
>> quickly, it seems.
>>
>> So every 30 sec, the drive makes the sound of an access activity. I
>> have looked trying to find what might be being updated. Swap drive
>> usage is 0 bytes. No activity in /var/log. What might it be and can I
>> do anything to lessen the drive access (improve battery life)?
>>
> ----
> don't use a journalled filesystem (ext3)
there is a bit to be said about that for a notebook. Particularly if
you separate /home to its own partition. I mean why is /boot a ext3
partition in Centos install? Why not ext2. Perhaps / could be too.
but would you want to put /var/log on a journalling partition? I guess
there have been flames all over the place on these default decisions.
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