[Gllug] GNOME Disk Activity

Matthew Allum breakfast at 10.am
Wed Dec 11 13:47:14 UTC 2002


Phew! cool :-)

  -- Matthew

on Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:54:02AM +0000, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
> 
> Well, I'm now capable of answering my own question!  The
> culprit is magicdev, which appears to be an automount daemon
> for the CD drive.  I've turned it off and the disk activity
> has ceased.
> 
> There was some discussion about it last year on a couple of
> the linux mailing lists.  Apparently, the only documentation
> about magicdev is the description in the RPM file.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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