Re: Something accessing hard drive

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:24:02AM -0800, JoseC.Rodriguez@gmail.com wrote:
> I have set my hard drive to standby after a given time through laptop-
> mode. The hd actually passes to standby mode but only for half a
> second or so after which it spins up again. If I issue hdparm -y /dev/
> hda the same behaviour is observed.
>
> I checked the logs inmediatly after this happens but found nothing
> meaningful to me. As far as I can tell I have configured syslog.conf
> in a way that log daemons will not sync after each minor event. I
> deactivated some daemons to check whether they could be the cause
> (lpd, cron, hal) but the problem persists.
>
> Is there a way to track down what is accessing the drive? I found a
> program called blktrace which seems to be useful in this situation,
> but I'd like to hear from any other suggestions.
>
> System is running sid with 2.6.23 custom kernel.
>

You may need something like noflushd. Don't know if its on sid. When activated, it keeps the filesystem from syncing to disk unnecessarily.

Doug.

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