martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:35:58 +0200:
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> > Doesn't really help. It logs the hd activity, but still there is
> > _some_ process running, which forces every 60 seconds the HD to
> > spin up:
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> You may want to peruse lsof and get periodic outputs to compare.
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> I know of no tool that does disk monitoring or the like.

Try laptop_mode in newer kernels:

/proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
and
/proc/sys/vm/block_dump

Debian's laptop-mode-tools controls the former, IIRC.

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