[mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Josiah Royse]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:57:20 +0100, Magnus Ekhall <koma at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> I have a box running Myth and I have noticed that about once every
> second there is a burst of disk activity. And this is when I'm not using
> Myth at all...
> 
> Is this becaus of Myth or something else? How can I find out?

You may also check your log files: "tail -f /var/log/messages"

you may notice your system is writing notices/errors to the log, then
the disk is syncing them to the filesystem.

Programs that automount media that was mentioned previously is also
can cause this.
--Josiah