> Is the hard drive activity happen "only" when you have X running?

No sure - I had to send the laptop off to the end user - so I can't check  
now.  Why do you ask?

>
> Sam.
>
> Johnny Fulcrum wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi-
>>
>> I have fedroa core1 on a dell latitude and have noticed a lot of hard   
>> drive activity.  The hard drive LED flickers constantly (sometimes  
>> goes  solid on for a second or two).  I install gkrellm and there's a  
>> little  chart for disk activity - every second or so it'll chart disk  
>> activity.
>>
>> Is there any tools or commands I can use to see what process is making  
>> the  HD grind ?  I looked through a ps -ef and didn't see anything too  
>> suspect  - I also have "turned off" uneeded services using chkconfig....
>> thanks
>> johnnyf
>>
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