Okay, I did more investigation and something definitely isn't right
here. My desktop is running the same OS with latest updates; the only
difference is that it was upgraded from jaunty instead of a fresh
install. On there, I can go idle for hours without any difference in my
df free space.

On my laptop, df decreases by 8 bytes every half second or so, as with the 
attachment.
The surprising thing is that it appears to be the very act of doing a df that 
causes the free space to go down by 4-16 bytes each time, no matter how long I 
wait. This of course varies because there is actual logging going on.

I also tried to find out which files were being modified; my suspicions
were the logs. Many of the most recently touched files were /proc, but
excluding those, I couldn't find anything meaningful. There were /tmp
and .mozilla stuff that looked correct.

Very frustrating bug, if that.

** Attachment added: "find"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33965912/find

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kjournald2 writes to disk about every 10 seconds
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442443
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