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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:20:09
Message-Id: 1298243882.9411.7.camel@rattus
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting is very slow by David Relson
1 "usb verbose debug" in the kernel? - check dmesg. Mine are always slow
2 to mount if this is on.
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4 BillK
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8 On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 10:33 -0500, David Relson wrote:
9 > Mounting USB devices is very, very slow. This morning I inserted my
10 > PNY memory stick at 10:18:22 but "df" didn't show it mounted until 3
11 > minutes later at 10:21:05.
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13 > As background information, in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
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15 > KERNEL=="sd*1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="PNY", SYMLINK+="PNY", RUN+="/bin/mount -a"
16 >
17 > and in /etc/fstab is:
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19 > /dev/PNY /mnt/pny vfat rw,nosuid,auto 0 0
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21 > The kernel messages in /var/log/messages for this period of time are in
22 > the attached file (to avoid line wrapping by mail clients).
23 >
24 > Any thoughts on why it takes so long and how I can speed up
25 > recognition?
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27 > Ideas for enabling more messages (from udev, the kernel, etc) to see
28 > what's happening would also be helpful.
29 >
30 > TIA,
31 >
32 > David
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36 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
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