Baho Utot wrote:
> Lenard wrote:
>
>> Baho Utot wrote:
>>
>>> Something keeps accessing the hard drive every 10 seconds approx.
>> The journalling of the filesystem (and a couple of other things) are
>> accessing the drive, review the /var/log/messages (as root) for the
>> details. Hints: smartd commit ext3
>
> I have smartd turned off, I thought it may have been the one so I turned it
> off.



I do not know if that is what causes the commit to disk but if you are going to
shut off the journaling you should change the fstab type to ext2 and get back
the journaling space. However this will require the disk to recover from
screw-ups at boot time which takes about 15-20 minutes for 40G drives.