Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> Steve Snyder wrote:
>
>> After a whole 3 days of using CentOS 4 I see that there is more
>> activity on my unused CD-ROM drive than there is on my lightly used
>> hard disk. (As indicated by the number of interrupts on the ide0 and
>> ide1 controllers.)
>>
>> It seems some process is polling the CD-ROM drive to determine if
>> there is a disk in it. My CD-ROM is hardly ever used after the
>> initial OS installation, so it makes no sense for me to have the
>> constant polling going on.
>>
>> What process is polling my CD-ROM drive and how can I stop it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
> It's probably autofs. A 'man autofs' shows that it's a filesystem
> auto-mounter. in CentOS 4, if you look in the /etc/auto.misc, you'll
> see that the cd is set up to auto-detect and mount whenever you put a
> CD into the drive. You have two ways to disable this:
>
> 1) turn off the autofs:
> # chkconfig autofs off
> # service autofs stop
>
> 2) Stop autofs from seeing the CD:
> - Comment out the cd entry in /etc/auto.misc and then
> # service autofs reload
>
Personally I prefer "rpm -e autofs", that fixes things right up too.
