funny hard drive "activity"

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Sy Ali wrote:

> I woke up this morning to see my computer gently blinking its hdd led
> in a nice gentle repeating pattern.  It's odd, because there was
> nothing happening on the computer and it was left overnight, unplugged
> from a net connection.
>
> So what gives?  Is it spending its off time wearing itself out, or is
> it legitimately doing something?  - optimizing the drive?
>
> I know there's a bunch of "all is well" logging happening, but this
> struck me as a little strange because a log would just drop its data
> and go quiet again.
>
> Ideas?

    Use top and/or ps to see what processes are running.

    Use lsof to see what files are open.


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