Hi all,

My harddisk has recently been very noisy and i heed the advice on mounting the partition with nodiratime option but still doesn't help
When i did a echo 1> /proc/sys/vm/block_dump, i realized kjournald keeps writing to my block, cos the inode is always dirtied dan..... and everytime it writes, my harddisk gets damn noisy...
I tried laptop-mode and its suppose to increase the interval.. however doesn't work. (Anyway i can change any setting manually?)
I read and realize some actually remove ext3 from kernel by editing the fstab...

Is there any gd suggesting as this ticking sound is really really...discerning..

Thanks

You ever used the sar (system activity reporter)
There are some switches which show you the activities. sar -A will activate all switches

Well i disable the entry in cron.d cos this is worst the mrtg writes to my disk every couple of second god.....
Thus SAC does not have any log to analyze *shrug*

...now i get
pdflush(145): WRITE block 3058120 on hda3

this pdflush keeps writing to block ... i remount with option to increase interval of kjournald but pdflush hunts me now.... does it only happen only notebook or rather FC4 ? I know for the cause of kjournald is ext3 commiting immediate update....

Regards

This looks like a hardware error. Maybe you have a bad track on your hardisk?

Hmm so you suggest i do a scan disk on XP ? or what utility do i use in linux to perform... e2fcsk or how u spell it doesnt work cos of EXT3 dan.. ext3 again lol

Sorry, I have no idea how to do it. It should be done normally on hardwarelevel. maybe from the BIOS.