On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Justin Liu wrote:
> Is there a way to find out which processes are initiating disk accesses?
>
> I've been using my laptop on the road more often recently and I want
> be able to spin down the drive when it's not needed. I downloaded
> hdparm to set the spindown time, but there are a lot of accesses going
> on that wake up the drive often.
atd and crond are two daemons that will access the hard drive often. You
might just want to not run them.
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