[ubuntu-uk] USB Pen Drive Problem

[Nigel Verity]

Hi
I use a 32Gb USB pen drive for daily backups of my main PC (#1). Each time I 
plug it into PC #1 it takes only seconds to mount. However, if I plug it into 
my other PC (#2) it can take 10-15 minutes to mount. If I subsequently write 
data to the drive from PC #2 it will then also take 10-15 minutes to mount next 
time I plug it into PC #1.
I've formatted the drive as ext3, ext4 and fat32 - makes no difference.
Does anybody have any ideas what is going on and whether there is anything I 
can do to speed things up?
On both my PCs I'm running 11.10 with Xfce, formatted as ext4.
Thanks
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Pen Drive Problem

[Colin Law]

On 1 November 2012 10:39, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Hi

 I use a 32Gb USB pen drive for daily backups of my main PC (#1). Each time I
 plug it into PC #1 it takes only seconds to mount. However, if I plug it
 into my other PC (#2) it can take 10-15 minutes to mount. If I subsequently
 write data to the drive from PC #2 it will then also take 10-15 minutes to
 mount next time I plug it into PC #1.

Are you correctly ejecting it when you remove it, rather than just
pulling it out.

Otherwise run dmesg in a terminal then plug it in and run dmesg in a
terminal and see if there is anything interesting added.  Also look in
syslog and see if anything there.

Colin


 I've formatted the drive as ext3, ext4 and fat32 - makes no difference.

 Does anybody have any ideas what is going on and whether there is anything I
 can do to speed things up?

 On both my PCs I'm running 11.10 with Xfce, formatted as ext4.

 Thanks

 Nige

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