Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: thunar
Opening vfat drives in thunar (for the first time after the mount) takes
significant time, proportional to drive's size: approx. 3 minutes for
320G drive. The file browser displays nothing and just 'hangs' with the
status 'Loading folder contents...'.
The problem is caused by the call to statfs which makes the whole disk
scan in the absence of 'usefree' option to mount. The same problem also
affects nautilus.
For my setup, I've just edited fstab entries for my external drives.
However, plugging in large USB sticks still happens with delay
(tolerable).
This problem was reported and fixed back in 2007, see e.g. #133567
Now, it might be unwise to add 'usefree' by default when mounting vfat
drives. How about adding a special option to 'Removable drives and
media' below the 'Mount removable media then inserted'?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 7 10:40:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: thunar 1.0.1-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, username)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.39-generic
SourcePackage: thunar
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64
** Affects: thunar (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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thunar hangs when opening large USB vfat drives
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445236
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