CalicosineTrying to figure out why my computer's disk light is blinking a lot and Firefox is frequently accessing its cache (doing it a lot for mastodon dot online) and kded6 is looking at my mounted partitions occasionally. Using a program called "fatrace" (likely pronounced FA-Trace) as mentioned here:
Likely part of this is ClamAV's on-access scanning, which somehow doesn't show up in there. Maybe they changed something to make it quieter?
I think it's a result of how Linux handles "I/O Characters Read Rate" as I constantly have a lot of stuff with those in the Plasma System Monitor, and barely with "Disk Read". Should apply to the write-related stuff, too.
It stopped doing it and I don't know why, so now it's back to the usual amount of blinking. I was thinking it was BTRFS scrub but it didn't say when it was done in the dmesg thing and it last ran a few days ago. Maybe it's some defragmentation or other BTRFS task.