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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:27:17
Message-Id: 50C3860A.8050905@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access by Jacques Montier
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2 > 2012/12/8 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com <mailto:realnc@×××××.com>>
3 >
4 > On 08/12/12 16:36, Jacques Montier wrote:
5 >
6 > As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD,
7 > the hard drive is always working (read/write) every second
8 > (even when doing nothing).
9 >
10 >
11 > Could it be a disk indexing service, like KDE's Nepomuk?
12 >
13 >
14 > Am 08.12.2012 18:30, schrieb Jacques Montier:
15 > I don't have Nepomuk, but maybe any other indexing service ? I don't know...
16 > I tried to look at the processes with top and mounting /unmounting
17 > /dev/sda5 ; i haven't seen any difference...
18 >
19 > thank you Nikos,
20 >
21 > --
22 > Jacques
23 >
24
25 Try lsof instead to find processes accessing files. You can also try iotop.
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27 PS: Please don't top-post.
28
29 Regards,
30 Florian Philipp

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