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  1. Bug #607560
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 607560

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rCX (rcx) wrote : Re: jbd2 writing block every 5 seconds, preventing disk spin-down and making noise

A 1 minute log was generated using the following commands...

sudo -i
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump # Start logging
# Wait 1 minute
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump # Stop logging
exit

Results from /var/log/kern.log are attached. Noise/write occurs at jbd2 entries e.g....
Jul 20 00:15:35 edge kernel: [ 7281.741214] jbd2/sda5-8(347): WRITE block 68124096 on sda5