Could you run some benchmarks before and after rebooting, copying at least a few gigs of data?
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 04:25, Emeric Vigier <[email protected]> wrote: > I got a similar problem, but not sure it's the same. My external USB HDD > (Iomega 320GB USB2.0) is automatically mounted on /media/disk-1 at my > Ubuntu10.04 startup through /etc/fstab: > > proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 > /dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/sda4 /home ext4 defaults 0 2 > /dev/sda2 /opt ext4 defaults 0 2 > # swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation > UUID=a1a3d3a1-6a3c-4f16-9015-8bd1876fa89b none swap sw > 0 0 > UUID=51165527-e547-4bea-ac72-83c8290826f8 /media/disk-1 ext3 > rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0 > > Every monday, I'm starting up my Linux machine, taking care that the HDD > is powered on before powering on my PC. This to ensure HDD is ready when > Ubuntu needs it. Indeed Ubuntu startup is very fast now. HDD contains > two partitions (ext3 and NTFS): > > $ mount | grep sdb > /dev/sdb2 on /media/disk-1 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) > /dev/sdb1 on /media/15388EE8577DA058 type fuseblk > (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions) > > Nevertheless startup message tells me that /media/disk-1 cannot be > mounted because drive is not ready/present. Then after few seconds, it > disappeared, and loggin screen pops up. It has been properly mounted but > accesses (writes) are terribly slow. I restart my machine without > powering off my HDD and everything got back to normal performances. As > long as I restart, performances are ok. If I shutdown, next reboot will > be terrible in terms of external USB HDD performances... I haven't made > many logs but can get some on demand. > > -- > Copying files to USB flash drive is extremely slow > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541937 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Copying files to USB flash drive is extremely slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541937 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Fedora. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

