Disk activity

garg_art2002

My pfsense 1.2 release shows 3% disk activity and makes a small amount of disk activity noise. Annoying.

I had earlier installed snort and few packages but have long deleted them…

Please see attached picture.

Is there a way to stop this or reduce this down? I also noticed left over config data for snort et al from past I wonder if that may be the reason. Perhaps I should delete the left over clutter about packages that I dont have installed nay more...

Any suggestion to bring disk activity down will be helpful.

Thanks much.
Anil Garg

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hoba

It writes logfiles to the hdd for example. A little bit of diskactivity is normal.

Cry Havok

At a hardware level you have a number of choices.

Switching to 2.5" drives (I'm running a Microdrive and even when it's busy it's barely audible).
Switching to a lower noise 3.5" drive (such as the new WD "Green" 5400 RPM drives)
Making use of one of the many noise damping enclosures on the market (http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/harddrivesolutions)

You could even combine the above, switch from a 3.5" drive to a 2.5" drive inside an enclosure.

hoba

Btw, it's 3% disk USAGE not activity which means there is plenty of space left on your hdd ;)

garg_art2002

Thanks. I must have been blind to not see that. I suppose I was reading what I was looking for instead of what facts were.
Sorry.
Anil

@hoba:

Btw, it's 3% disk USAGE not activity which means there is plenty of space left on your hdd ;)