anyway to log ext4 disk access ?

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:28:19 +0000
Aaron Gray wrote:

> I seem to be experiencing constant disk accesses on a new install on F16
> and am wondering why and what they are basically.

That is probably ext4 doing its background journal building
(or whatever the heck it does in the background on a newly
formatted partition). I've seen this as well when doing a
new install. After a while they eventually die down
(probably depending on the size of the partition).