How to identify processes with HD Access

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Guest · #1 Post by **Guest** » 2004-08-12 08:21

Hi,

when my system is idling there is still some hard disk activity all the time - one access in every 1 to 5 seconds - which prevents my hard disk from entering sleep mode.

How can I identify the responsible process(es) ?
Is there any way to restrict hard disk access selectively ?

Guest · #2 Post by **Guest** » 2004-08-29 20:41

finally found the solution myself: top -d 1 revealed kupdated as culprit; searching the web for kupdated issues lead me to the following link:
http://elibrary.fultus.com/technical/in ... 09s04.html
it seems that reiser-fs is causing the idle activity; I will try powersave as next step

Guest · #3 Post by **Guest** » 2004-09-02 15:07

Thanks I was wondering about that to

tgoodaire · #4 Post by **tgoodaire** » 2004-09-10 18:29

I believe that:

lsof /dev/hdax would tell you what process(es) are using your partition. (Replace the x with the actual device name).