Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access

2012-12-08 Thread Jacques Montier
2012/12/8 Florian Philipp 

> >
> > 2012/12/8 Nikos Chantziaras mailto:rea...@gmail.com>>
> >
> > On 08/12/12 16:36, Jacques Montier wrote:
> >
> > As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD,
> > the hard drive is always working (read/write) every second
> > (even when doing nothing).
> >
> >
> > Could it be a disk indexing service, like KDE's Nepomuk?
> >
> >
> > Am 08.12.2012 18:30, schrieb Jacques Montier:
> > I don't have Nepomuk, but maybe any other indexing service ? I don't
> know...
> > I tried to look at the processes with top and mounting /unmounting
> > /dev/sda5 ; i haven't seen any difference...
> >
> > thank you Nikos,
> >
> > --
> > Jacques
> >
>
> Try lsof instead to find processes accessing files. You can also try iotop.
>
> PS: Please don't top-post.
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>
>
Oh yes, sorry for top-posting :-(
I'll try lsof and iotop.

Regards,

--
Jacques


Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access

2012-12-08 Thread Florian Philipp
>
> 2012/12/8 Nikos Chantziaras mailto:rea...@gmail.com>>
>
> On 08/12/12 16:36, Jacques Montier wrote:
>
> As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD,
> the hard drive is always working (read/write) every second
> (even when doing nothing).
>
>
> Could it be a disk indexing service, like KDE's Nepomuk?
>
>
> Am 08.12.2012 18:30, schrieb Jacques Montier:
> I don't have Nepomuk, but maybe any other indexing service ? I don't know...
> I tried to look at the processes with top and mounting /unmounting
> /dev/sda5 ; i haven't seen any difference...
> 
> thank you Nikos,
> 
> --
> Jacques
> 

Try lsof instead to find processes accessing files. You can also try iotop.

PS: Please don't top-post.

Regards,
Florian Philipp



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access

2012-12-08 Thread Jacques Montier
I don't have Nepomuk, but maybe any other indexing service ? I don't know...
I tried to look at the processes with top and mounting /unmounting
/dev/sda5 ; i haven't seen any difference...

thank you Nikos,

--
Jacques


2012/12/8 Nikos Chantziaras 

> On 08/12/12 16:36, Jacques Montier wrote:
>
>> As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD, the hard
>> drive is always working (read/write) every second (even when doing
>> nothing).
>>
>
> Could it be a disk indexing service, like KDE's Nepomuk?
>
>
>


[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access

2012-12-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras

On 08/12/12 16:36, Jacques Montier wrote:

As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD, the hard
drive is always working (read/write) every second (even when doing nothing).


Could it be a disk indexing service, like KDE's Nepomuk?