On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:25 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > Current state is that partition TV is now in fstab, but disk2data is > > not. Dolphin can now find both, but TV is read-only. > > > > here is fstab: > > > > UUID=21FC-A114 /media/TV vfat defaults 0 0 > > > > I have noticed that since I added TV to fstab it takes a lot longer to > > boot. > > Type > > mount | grep /media/TV > > and see if it says it's read-only or writable in the parenthesis; `ro' > or `rw'. > > I suspect dmesg would have errors relating to the partition and it's > mounted read-only to stop things getting worse. > > Cheers, Ralph. >
Thanks. It says: /dev/sdb5 on /media/TV type vfat (rw) Only mention of sdb5 is in this segment. media/TV not mentioned at all. " [ 2.263799] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 2.263807] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 2.263856] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 2.263968] scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA ST320410A 3.39 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 2.264154] sda: [ 2.264215] sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 2.269546] sda1 sda2 sda3 < [ 2.269577] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 39102336 512-byte logical blocks: (20.0 GB/18.6 GiB) [ 2.283879] sda5 sda6 [ 2.293614] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 2.293620] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 2.304630] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 2.304638] sda7 > [ 2.305255] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 > [ 2.372946] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 2.373172] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk " Peter -- Next meeting: TBD, ???day 2011-07-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

