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I think you answered your own question. Samba (smbd) is a service. It is doing its job and ready to offer service at any time. Apparently this involves periodically accessing the disk. There is nothing wrong with this; it is normal operation. Samba won't work anyway when you are in standby, so you might as well stop it when you are done using it. PG > -----Original Message----- >

Hi, Newbie question here. I've read some about how you can't power down a disk under ext3 because of the journaling writes. I also know I can mount my ext3 partitions as ext2. What about mounting the partitions as ext2 while mobile on batteries? The hard disk would spin down when it wasn't in use (if noflush, etc. has been configured). But what about data integrity when