On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 16:29, David Timms wrote: > Guillaume Chazarain wrote: > >David Timms a écrit : > >>Would this tool help one in tracing the cause of disk accesses in an > >>otherwise inactive/idle notebook. It seems to be about every 3 seconds > >>or so that the hard disk LED lights. This must make it impossible for > >>the hard drive to get powered down - and save power. > > > >echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump > >and then watching dmesg should tell you what happens. > >Typically: some processing reading some files and updating the atimes. > >So, look for mount -o noatime. > OK, that works. Is there some way to tell dmesg to do the equivalent of: > tail -f dmesg {which doesn't work} ? watch tail dmesg ;) Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list