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From: Jacques Montier <jmontier@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:41:11
Message-Id: CAHVEG0A0wAYAOi3Z6Zvaw4CPNCJuNUdP-57k1yGV9tJUC_qyTA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access by Florian Philipp
1 2012/12/8 Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
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3 > >
4 > > 2012/12/8 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com <mailto:realnc@×××××.com>>
5 > >
6 > > On 08/12/12 16:36, Jacques Montier wrote:
7 > >
8 > > As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD,
9 > > the hard drive is always working (read/write) every second
10 > > (even when doing nothing).
11 > >
12 > >
13 > > Could it be a disk indexing service, like KDE's Nepomuk?
14 > >
15 > >
16 > > Am 08.12.2012 18:30, schrieb Jacques Montier:
17 > > I don't have Nepomuk, but maybe any other indexing service ? I don't
18 > know...
19 > > I tried to look at the processes with top and mounting /unmounting
20 > > /dev/sda5 ; i haven't seen any difference...
21 > >
22 > > thank you Nikos,
23 > >
24 > > --
25 > > Jacques
26 > >
27 >
28 > Try lsof instead to find processes accessing files. You can also try iotop.
29 >
30 > PS: Please don't top-post.
31 >
32 > Regards,
33 > Florian Philipp
34 >
35 >
36 Oh yes, sorry for top-posting :-(
37 I'll try lsof and iotop.
38
39 Regards,
40
41 --
42 Jacques