HD activity in 10.04

[Nils Kassube]

Arnaud G wrote:
> When I start up my laptop, sometimes the HD activity goes on for
> approximately 2-3 minutes.

To me that looks like one (or more) of the maintainance cron jobs in 
/etc/cron.daily is triggered just at the wrong time. As I didn't like 
that behaviour either I added a file /etc/cron.daily/1delay and made it 
executable. This is the contents of the file:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 1200

This job is executed as the first one and simply delays the other jobs 
for 20 minutes. After that time I usually don't care too much if there 
is an increased system activity.


Nils