On 27 Apr 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 20:45, * wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I was the one that posted the first question about the regular accesses > > to my hd. I tried both of the recommendations, killing magicdev, and > > adding the "noatime" option on / in /etc/fstab. The "noatime" reduced > > the size of the access from 25K to 16K, but it did not eliminate it. > > Killing magicdev did not have any effect that I noticed. > > > > So I did a complete format and install of rh9 to see if I had broken > > something, but no, a fresh install has the same issue. > > > > Gordon Messner points out that this is a Nautilus issue, and as it > > happens, when I was using rh8 I used KDE, and now I use GNOME. So maybe > > GNOME/Nautilus has been doing this all along? > > I bet it is fam. > > disable fam and see if it continues. i did, and it's still happening, so i'll try the /etc/mtab "noatime" suggestion next. rday
