Hi,

On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 23:32 +0300, Dan Tudor wrote:

> I have a question concerning the hard drive activity under Linux.
> I happen to leave my computer staying idle for few hours and when I get back to
> it I found that my HDD is spinning furiously even though no aplication is
> running and none is using the computer... I wonder if it is normal... I mean is
> it periodically checking the file system or something??
> Thank you for any light you can bring me.

Check if a cron job is running (see /var/log/messages).

Ciao,
        Stefan
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