On 11/24/2009 12:12 PM, John Robinson wrote: > On 24/11/2009 11:04, Markus Doits wrote: >> just wanted to silency my pc by reducing disk-activity. what bothers me >> is: my disk "click" about every five seconds. > [...] > > Try mounting the filesystem that's on md2 with the noatime option. > > Cheers, > > John. > thanks for your reply, but they are already: /dev/mapper/eltarun-root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) /dev/mapper/eltarun-debian32 on /mnt/debian32 type ext4 (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/eltarun-recordings on /mnt/recordings type ext4 (rw,noatime) /dev/mapper/eltarun-home on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime) this gave me another idea: besides the raid-volumes differ in their type (raid1/raid10), the raid10-volume is actually a lvm2-volume. but since the process "[md2_raid10]" is triggering the activity, for me it still looks like the raid is the cause. any other ideas? any way to check why it is writing to the device? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html