20 Jun
2002
20 Jun
'02
13:14
On Thursday 20 June 2002 14:50, Basil Chupin wrote:
Can anyone suggest why my HD is being accessed every 5 seconds, and how do I stop this?
You really don't want to stop this... It's the Linux kernel which does this. File changes are not written to disk right away, but cached. Every 5 seconds, these change are written to disk. See: man sync. Note: AFAIK the kernel has always done this. Note: This is also one of the reasons why you never must switch off a running Linux system. Regards, Cees.