That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake,
ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..?
Thanks
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Piero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
> I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two
> occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them
> until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's
> a massive search going on. What's up with this?
>
> --
> Mark
>
> I love my Linux Box....!
> REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows!
> Registered Linux user #1299563
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote:
>
> >
> >Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on
furiously for
> >a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program
set up
> >by Mandrake to act regularly at this time.
> >
> >I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and
acron
> >tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to
study
> >their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I
didn't
> >fint a man page.
> >
> >Daoes anybody know?
> >
>
