On 1 November 2012 10:39, Nigel Verity <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
