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) Craig