gnome continuously writing on disk

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:06:04 +0100, John Anderson wrote:
>On 27/04/17 11:47, Javier Marcon wrote:
>> Hello, I upgraded from Ubuntu Gnome Trusty to Xenial, and
>> gnome-session is writing the disk all time. It has already ruined
>> one disk an I need to make it stop.
>
>Don't know why this is happening to you, however I hop this helps.....
>
>http://www.howtoeverything.net/linux/hardware/permanently-configure-hard-drives-spin-down-after-given-idle-time

How should this help? If the disk is never idle, it will never spin
down, apart from this GVFS at least wakes up USB drives in standby
mode, that's why I don't have GVFS installed. Anyway, much likely GVFS
wakes up internal drives, too. The gist still is, that continuous
writing to a drive means, that it never is idle, so it never will go
into standby mode.

That's funny, in Google I just typed copied "jbd2" and got

https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=jbd2

on top

"jbd2 process (ext4 journal) is writing on disk all the time. File
system is ext4. I've tried to shutdown everything, but journaling
process is still constantly accessing the disk (once in every few
seconds).Feb 13, 2011 jbd2 process (ext4 journal) is writing on disk
all the time ... https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113516"

and on the bottom

"[ubuntu] jbd2 relentlessly grinding my disks - Ubuntu Forums
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2014443
Jul 2, 2012 - 10 posts - ‎4 authors
I checked iotop and iostat to see what was going on, jbd2 is constantly
writing to all the disks for no reason. Code: root at nas:~# iostat
Linux ... Very high IOWAIT (process jbd2/sda2-8) 4 posts
1 Nov 2015
[xubuntu] 99.99% NFS io for jbd2 on /home partition
7 posts
26 Aug 2013
[xubuntu] what is " [jbd2/sda1-8] " writing to my HD?
2 posts
6 Nov 2012
Excessive HDD use jbd2 journaling
10 posts
23 May 2012
More results from ubuntuforums.org"

I didn't read any of the links. Perhaps the OP should read them ;).

Regards,
Ralf