Okay, I've resolved the issue of df showing decreased space with each iteration. It turns out that konsole was saving the scrollback history to /tmp. Disabling that solved that particular problem.
kjournald2 is still writing every so often to disk. I assume that this is just updating dirty inodes caused by the running WM. I guess this bug should be marked as invalid or not fixing. -- kjournald2 writes to disk about every 10 seconds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs