[ubuntu-uk] USB Pen Drive Problem

[Colin Law]

On 1 November 2012 10:39, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> 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
>
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