Jakob Buchgraber wrote:
The drive is mounted (contains the / partition). If no program access
the harddisk, this actually shouldn't matter as otherwise the whole
concept of laptop-mode etc. is nuts (or I completely misunderstood it
:-) ).
Some more guesses that are not solutions :-) :
Other factors might be journal write (if / is a journaled file system),
or swap activity (if your laptop is short on ram) - basically the
kernel needs to do housekeeping stuff - possibly for a little while
after you have stopped doing anything.
However I'd expect that after a *while* (i.e few minutes) it should
settle down - no more activity should mean no more file buffer cache
flushes, swaps or journal writes.
have you tried leaving the machine for a few minutes (i.e going and
making a coffee), *then* stopping the drive?
Cheers
Mark
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