[mythtv-users] HDD Disk Activity when idle

[Tony Godshall]

According to 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.

It should also be noted that any read activity (e.g. stat file for 
changes or whatever) also requires write to the directory structions 
unless the partions are mounted with option 'noatime'.