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It's shortly after 6 am (or 4 am, or 2 am) and your hard drive starts going mad, disk access lights flutter, and you can hear heads grinding away. You've been cracked!!!

No you haven't.

Debian schedules a number of system maintenance processes to run in the wee hours of the morning. These include scans for old files to be deleted (if you have TmpReaper installed), the file locator database (SlocateDb), and a number of other tasks.

Before you pipe up on DebianUser or reformat your hard drive, take a peek at {{{/etc/crontab}}} and the contents of {{{/etc/cron.d}}}, {{{/etc/cron.daily}}}, {{{/etc/cron.weekly}}}, and {{{/etc/cron.monthly}}}.

If your computer wakes you up every morning when this happens, move your computer out of your bedroom. If you can't do that, you can change the time that cron runs by editing the file {{{/etc/crontab}}}. The first two elements in each line are minutes and hours. The default for daily, weekly, and montly are "25 6", "47 6", and "52 6", respectively; it runs the daily at 6:25am, the weekly at 6:47am, and the monthly at 6:52am. For example, I changed mine to "58 6" (It's nicer to wake up to my hard drive at 6:58 than to my alarm at 7), "20 7", and "25 7". Notice I kept the time gap between them the same.