Matthew Holtz, I guess you're right, this would still be a problem on netbooks. Hopefully someone will mark this as confirmed.
I've been playing around with different settings. Adding commit=60, to the partition's entry in fstab increases the interval to 30-45 seconds. No solution yet. What hard disk are you using? I have a Fujitsu MJA2250B. -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs