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SubjectRe: Periodic disk writes
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> I have periodic disk writes that prevent me from going into power saving 
> mode on my harddrive, even when supposedly nothing should be happening.
> Does anyone know a way to somehow list out disk read/write requests?

You need a mount option (which does not exist) that disables atime
updates. Maybe also a better way for 'tail' to detect file size
changes, such as 'select' or some other blocking system call.


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