> Jens,
>
> For some time I've wanted to log exactly what linux is reading and writing
> from my harddisk - for a variety of reasons. The current reason is that my
> very idle laptop writes to disk every once in a while (or reads, I don't
> know).
Have you mounted the fs with -o noatime?
> Now, conceptually this should not be very hard, but I'd like to ask your
> thoughts on where I might insert some crude logging? There are lots of
> places that might be better or worse for some reason.
>
> I'd love to be as close to the physical block device as possible, short of
> rewriting actual IDE drivers.
>
> Any tips? Or is this idea crazy?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
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regards, Samium Gromoff
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