empties the buffers and writes their data on disk. You can change that by passing the 'commit=#sec'
argument on the mount options in /etc/fstab.
Filippos
On 5/4/06, jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 04 May 2006 12:21 pm, Mike Duffy wrote:
> Can anyone please explain to me why my hard drive continuously cycles every
> three to five seconds, even when I am not doing anything? This is
> incredibly annoying.
>
> I am using FC-4. Does anyone know if this bug (please don't tell me it is
> a feature) has been fixed in FC-5? Does anyone know if there are any other
> Linux distributions that do not have this bug?
>
> Is there any way to turn this activity off, by killing a process, etc.? If
> anyone can help me solve this I promise to buy you your favorite beverage
> if you are ever in Austin.
>
> Thx!
>
> Mike
>
> FYI: The subject of this email comes from the cartoon series, "The
> Jetsons."
>
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