Seems to be the ext4 journaling doing its thing. You can increase the interval (in seconds) by adding for example
commit=60 to mount-options in /etc/fstab, or disable it altogether with tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda5 e2fsck -f /dev/sda5 (or whatever your disk is called). Your disk will be more vulnerable for data corruption on uncontrolled shut-downs without journaling. -- jbd2 writing block every 5 - 10 seconds, preventing disk spin-down and making noise https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607560 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
