On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 16:43, Tom <tomgparchaur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a spare hard disk I don't touch the most of the time. Due to a > strange reason, a change uevent is triggered some random time of the day > (like 4 or more times) and then, of course, udev apply the rules, being > one of them a rule which runs vol_id which then wakes up my spinned-down > hard disk (debugged with echoing a 1 to /proc/sys/vm/block_dump and > udevadm monitor). Does "monitor" show a kernel event, or only a udev event? Any other events at the same time? Are you running smartd? Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html