[Gllug] what is causing disk activity ?

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:45:57PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Alain Williams wrote:
> > The disk on my main-server/desktop seems to be continually chattering.
> > What is causing it. I'm not really doing anything other than type stuff in
> > emacs. So what is causing it ? Being paranoid I am wondering if I have been
> > rooted.
> >    
> 
> 
> You're using a journalling filesystem?

Yes: ext3

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