Using 5.0-rc5-r8168 here. I noticed that parity drive and my disk 3 (the only wd green power 2 tb i have others are seagate) spin up often without a reason. Nothing is connected to them except my htpc that is in sleep,nothing is mounted on my windows machine but something is writing some bytes to disk 3 often.

I have only simple features with cache_dirs enabled.

 

How can i check what is writing those bytes ? It's really annoying

If you notice it when it spins up you can try checking for open files:

 

lsof /mnt/*

Using 5.0-rc5-r8168 here. I noticed that parity drive and my disk 3 (the only wd green power 2 tb i have others are seagate) spin up often without a reason. Nothing is connected to them except my htpc that is in sleep,nothing is mounted on my windows machine but something is writing some bytes to disk 3 often.

I have only simple features with cache_dirs enabled.

 

How can i check what is writing those bytes ? It's really annoying

Easiest way is to install the "inotify tools" package and then invoke it to monitor disk3 by typing:

inotifywait -mr /mnt/disk3

 

The "inotify tools" package is available from the package manager in unMENU, or you can just type the following commands to download and install it temporarily (until you next reboot)

 

cd /boot

wget  http://www.slackware.org.il/slackware/slackware-12.2/slackware/a/inotify-tools-3.13-i486-1.tgz

installpkg inotify-tools-3.13-i486-1.tgz

 

You will soon see what is accessing the disk.  Type "Control-C" to stop the monitoring.

 

Let us know what you find.    The other suggestion of using "lsof" will only work if you happen to type that command exactly when the file is being accessed, otherwise, it will not see the open file.

 

Joe L.

Will try the inotify tonight and will report back for sure

 

Thanks a lot

Thanks Joe, much better way of finding out what is going on

After a reboot the problem disappeared! Great

 

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