On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:25:45PM -0500, JamesS wrote:
> I left the side cover off the Mandrake box. Now i notice that there is a lot
> of hard drive activity even when i am not messing with the puter for a
> while. Is this normal? It will go quiet for a few minutes then start making
> noise for a while then stop for a little while and start again. This is
> bugging me.
I'm assuming this happens _all_ the time, rather than mostly at certain
times of day. If so, check the output of the "top" program to see what's
going on during the disk activity. However, if this activity is
periodic, check the cron jobs running.
Paul
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