Well, according to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42242 this bug was squashed and they're polling /proc/mounts now. Robert Day, can you strace your running applications one at a time until you find the app that keeps accessing your drive? # strace -p <pid> Just do the obvious pid's and you should see a several system calls fly by every 5 seconds - then you know you've got the right application and we'll go after them! -eric wood Klaasjan Brand wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 04:26, Eric Wood wrote: > >> Grodon is right. I complained about this a year ago, how can a linux >> hard drive ever go into power saving mode when keep stat()ing >> /etc/mtab. There is another stat() which should have been used by >> Nautilus that doesn't change the atime of a file (according to the >> author of the ext filesystem, Steven Tweedie). Nautilus should >> have been using that other function or switch to using fam. Fam >> does not access the disk itself, it tells a subscribing program >> that a certain file has changed. I have no idea why the nautilus >> guys haven't fix this. > > Maybe because they are "buried in bug reports" and have more to do? > > Anyway, I didn't find a report on bugzilla.gnome.org nor on > bugzilla.redhat.com, so you might file a bug or 2...
