Hi. I'm running openSUSE on my desktop computer. As you probably know SuSE is RPM based just like Fedora. My problem is that the HD is constantly active, even when the computer is idle. The led on the computer indicates that the HD is in use and it also sounds as if I the computer was writing to the HD. I read something about that there are some kind of indexing processes that run when the computer is idle, but surely such a process wouldn't run constantly for many hours. Constant activity just can't be good for the HD. I'm not sure but I think that these processes begun to appear after I installed KDE on the computer (I always run GNOME tough), but to me it seems a bit far fetched that this would have caused this problem. Thanks in advance for any information on this subject - Matte - matte85

Could be swap file issue, low memory avail, I doubt it is journaling but depends on file system, could be driver issue, could be onboard hardware HD caching clashing with software caching. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.