On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > To stop a green drive spinning up and down again and again I removed > gvfs from my machine, but each time I used K3b seemingly a KDE thingy > makes my drive spin up and down again and again until I reboot. You can check whether k3b is starting some KDE4 service in the Service Manager in KDE System Settings [1]. If some service starts, you should be able to stop it there, too. Lukas [1] http://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Startup_and_Shutdown