Small and synchronous writes are pervasive in various environments and manifest in various levels of software stack, ranging from device drivers to application software. Given a block interface, small write can cause serious write amplifications, which can substantially degrade the overall I/O performance. To address this issue, this paper presents a block I/O scheduler, named Hitchhike. Hitchhike is able to identify small writes, and embed them into other data blocks through data compression. With Hitchhike, a writeback buffer for small synchronous writes can be enabled, not only removing the write amplification, but also dramatically improving the performance of small synchronous writes. Hitchhike is implemented based on the Deadline I/O schedulers in Linux 2.6.32, and evaluated by running Filebench benchmark. Testing results show that compared to traditional approaches, Hitchhike can significantly improve the performance of synchronous small writes up to 48.6%.