[SOLVED] Mounted disk makes annoying noise

[foormanek]

Hello,
I am new to Proxmox. I just have installed VE 8.2-2. I did not have done anything to it yet, it is fresh. I have hooked up a 20tb disk to it as additional storage, with ext4 filesystem. When I mount it "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk20t/" disk starts making regular head moving noises about 3 times per second. Disk just sits idle, but noise never stops. It stops, when I unmount the disk "umount /mnt/disk20t/". It is a noise of disk access, because disk activity light blinks when it happens. Disk does not make it by itself.
Why is it making this noise? How to switch that noise off?

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @foormanek , welcome to the forum!

The easiest solution is to upgrade to SSD!

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[Ernst T.]

disk starts making regular head moving noises about 3 times per second

Power supply too weak or hard disk defective.

 

[foormanek]

Power supply too weak or hard disk defective.

Just suppose power is OK and disk is OK. If so, how could I find a process which makes writes, reads or other head positioning requests to that particular disk?

 

[foormanek]

Now I know what it is. It's lazy_itable_init. On fresh 20TB ext4 it could annoy for weeks long, as people report. The only practical solution is to reinit filesystem like this:
mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0 <your.disk.partition.path>
I did that and no noise now.
I would mark this as solved, but I can not find <solved> button anywhere. Thread title also is uneditable for me.