[ltp] HD Noise

[Francesc Ferrer]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Josep Tarbal Casellas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently installed Debian Woody on my computer with the kernel
> 2.4.18. I recompiled the kernel in order to have the harward well
> configurated. Everything works fine, but the hard disk does a noise
> which I think it is not normal.
>
> The noise is like it is reading something in the disk very often. I
> would like to know if this behaviour is normal or not. I would don't
> like to damage my computer.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Bye,
> Pep
>
>
>
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Did it start after recompiling the kernel? Does top show anything
running?

Debian set in my laptop by default a cron job that tries to find and
purge some files once a week causing such a noise.

Is it continuous? (Journaling file systems write to disk every five
seconds).

Bye,
Cesc.