I found what the problem is - it's some incompatibility of nautilus and NTFS filesystem of my external drive. When I have nautilus hanging and try to unmount it via terminal - it responds that the drive is busy and cannot be unmounted, "lsof" does not respond either. I've tested my drive on another Ubuntu 8.10 machine with all the latest updates installed and had the same nautilus freeze. When connected to Windows - my drive works fine (NTFS with NTFS). Moreover, my NTFS drive must be fragmented a lot (I didn't perform any defragmenting for a long time), so it probably adds some compatibility problems too (it works slowly sometimes even in Windows).
My solution: I will format my external drive in ext3 filesystem, 'cause nautilus with 500Gb external drive in ext3 works fine. However, this linux-NTFS problem should be corrected in the nearest future, for not all people may want to format their drives in ext3. Thanks! :) -- Nautilus freezes completely when accessing large exterior hard drive (500Gb) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316877 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
