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Which process is writing to disk and/or causes the disk to spin up?
+First of all use lsof to check what's going on. Does not help? ->
+
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
The command sets a sysctl to cause the kernel to log all disk
# xfs_admin -l /dev/sda1
reiserfs without vol_id:
-# debugreiserfs /dev/sda1 | grep UUID
+# debugreiserfs /dev/sda1 | grep -i label
+
+jfs without vol_id:
+# jfs_tune -l /dev/sda1 | grep -i label
reiser4 without vol_id:
-# debugfs.reiser4 /dev/sda1 | grep uuid
+# debugfs.reiser4 /dev/sda1 | grep -i label
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Check filesystem's UUID:
# vol_id -u /dev/sda1
ext2/3 without vol_id:
-# dumpe2fs /dev/sda1 | grep UUID
+# dumpe2fs /dev/sda1 | grep -i UUID
xfs without vol_id:
# xfs_admin -u /dev/sda1
reiserfs without vol_id:
-# debugreiserfs /dev/sda1 | grep LABEL
+# debugreiserfs /dev/sda1 | grep -i UUID
reiser4 without vol_id:
-# debugfs.reiser4 /dev/sda1 | grep label
+# debugfs.reiser4 /dev/sda1 | grep -i UUID
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+Change a filesystem's LABEL:
+
+swap:
+# mkswap -L $LABEL /dev/sda1
+
+ext2/ext3:
+# e2label /dev/sda1 $LABEL
+# tune2fs -L $LABEL /dev/sda1
+
+reiserfs:
+# reiserfstune -l $LABEL /dev/sda1
+
+jfs:
+# jfs_tune -L $LABEL /dev/sda1
+
+xfs:
+# xfs_admin -L $LABEL /dev/sda1
+
+fat/vfat:
+# echo 'drive i: file="/dev/sda1"' >> ~/.mtoolsrc
+# mlabel -s i:$LABEL
+
+ntfs:
+# ntfslabel $LABEL /dev/sda1
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