Comment 5 for bug 294190

Wait... is this part of the reason why my hard drive has 1.4 million load cycles?

"I needed to find out who was accessing the disk so frequently. iotop is a nice utility for this. wpa-supplicant was at the top of the list. I am using a wireless connection, and wpa-supplicant frequently logs something. Next was gconf-d, followed by gnome-do and console-kit-daemon."

http://www.botcyb.org/2008/12/linux-hard-disk-issue-excessive.html