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