Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 problem and disk access
2012/12/9 Andre Goessel gentoo-u...@goessel.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
[gentoo-user] Ext4 problem and disk access
Hi, 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). Here is my fstab : sdb is a SSD and sda HDD. # SSD /dev/sdb1 /bootext2noatime,discard 1 2 /dev/sdb2 / ext4noatime,discard 0 1 /dev/sdb3 /home ext4noatime,discard 0 0 #HDD /dev/sda1 none swapsw 0 0 /dev/sda2 /var ext4noatime 0 0 /dev/sda3 /usr/portageext4noatime 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/sauvegardeext4 noatime 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/disk_virt ext4 noatime 0 0 /dev/sda7 /mnt/donnees ntfs-3g auto,uid=jacques,gid=users,umask=0022 0 0 This problem appears only with /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6 and stops when unmouting the two drives. The HDD partition (attached file partition). I tried some options as commit=600, but no success. Output of cat /proc/mounts (attached file mounts). Thank you for your help, Regards, -- Jacques mounts Description: Binary data partition Description: Binary data
Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 problem and disk access
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
