Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 problem and disk access

[Jacques Montier]

2012/12/9 Andre Goessel <gentoo-user@×××××××.net>

> Moin,
>
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 03:36:29PM +0100, Jacques Montier wrote:
> > As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD, the hard drive
> > is always working (read/write) every second (even when doing nothing).
> >
> > This problem appears only with /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6 and stops when
> > unmouting the two drives.
>
> I detected a similar behavior on fresh ext4 filesystems, after some
> searching I found the hint that it should be part of the ext4
> background initialisation and it should be finished after some
> time. In my case it finished after maybe 2 hours. :)
>
>
> Good luck ...
>               Andre
>
>
Thank you Andre,

Solved !
Well, the problem disappeared as soon as i filled the two partitions with
data (data backed up before partitionning).
So, the initialisation seems to occur with a new empty ext4 partition only
filled with journal data.

Thanks to you two Nikos and Andre,

Regards,

--
Jacques