Joe Lore wrote:
>
> That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake,
> ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Piero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
>
> > I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two
> > occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them
> > until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's
> > a massive search going on. What's up with this?
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > I love my Linux Box....!
> > REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows!
> > Registered Linux user #1299563
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on
> furiously for
> > >a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program
> set up
> > >by Mandrake to act regularly at this time.
> > >
> > >I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and
> acron
> > >tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to
> study
> > >their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I
> didn't
> > >fint a man page.
> > >
> > >Daoes anybody know?
> > >
> >
That IS an intersting question! I would be VERY interested in know that
myself. I've been looking around the system and haven't seen anything
like that yet, but if I would be running windows when that happened the
other day and again this morning I would have sworn "Find Fast" was
running and updating the file system indexes.
--
Mark
I love my Linux box...
REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
Registered Linux user #1299563
