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
