Gentlemen, I thank you all for your comments about my question about why my HD is being accessed every 5 seconds and how to stop it but, as you all know, my HD is still being accessed every 5 seconds and I still don't know how to stop this. It also looks like nobody at SuSE reads this forum or if they do then they couldn't be bothered to come up with the answer. This being a SuSE mailing group then it would be safe to assume that everybody here must be running SuSE. May I then ask how /your/ system is behaving? Is your HD being accessed every 5 seconds, or in some other regular pattern? This 5 second access is occurring here on 3 computers with SuSE 8 installed on them but a friend of mine went back and installed v7.2 on one of his computers to check this timing thingie out and found that the accessing time was around every 25 seconds rather than 5 seconds in version 8.0 It would be nice to get your responses on this which may lead to some picture being formed about what, and why, is causing this 5 second access.Is this happening to you and which version are you running? My computer is switched on around 1000 hours and switched off around 0330 hours the next day. Now this is a heck of a lot of unnecessary read/write head activity over this period. Cheers.