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

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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