HD activity

[Steve Flynn]

On 18/10/2007, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> For some unknown reason my hard drive becomes active, runs for about 5
> minutes and then stops. This repeats about every half hour and happens
> whether I am using my computer or not. Could some kind person point me
> towards some tests I might do in order to locate the source of this odd
> behaviour. I am running Ubuntu 7.o4 on a desktop. Thank you.

Probably the tracker daemon or Beagle - it's indexing your hard-drive
for improved searching facilities. Personally, I turn them off as they
offer me zero benefit.

-- 
Steve
When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people
suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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