Hello again Hamish, > > Any thoughts about diagnosing storage unmounting with no explanation > > is dmesg? This seems rather strange to me. I'm using a powered hub > > too now, in case I forgot to mention.
Is it enough power? > > Other volumes on the same external disk stay mounted. > > - How does the filesystem which keeps unmounting differ from the other > ones on that disk which don't? > - What's that filesystem used for? > - Does ‘sudo lsof /dev/sda1’, adjusted as appropriate, show surprising > programs using that filesystem? > - Is it possible it is deliberately unmounted from userspace due to some > forgotten or erroneous program? > - If the mount-point is altered, does the problem continue? > This may be impractical to test. > - Have you fun a *forced* fsck on the unmounted filesystem? s/fun/run > - Have you read every byte of the block device? > - Does putting it under stress in this manner make an unmount more > likely? -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-10-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
