Removable USB device very slow

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Martin Pitt Wrote: 
> Hi Olivier!

> 

> Olivier [2004-11-12 15:30 +0100]:

> > 

> > 	When my USB disk is plugged it is automatically mounted by HAL. But
> the

> > disk is mount with the sync option :

> > 

> > /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync)

> > 

> > 	Where can I change these options for HAL ?. I don't want to add
> entries

> > in fstab because I have different disk with different file-systems.

> 

> 

> In the near future, drives above 2 GB will automatically be mounted

> "async" which makes then a magnitude faster.

> 

> 



How can HAL be tuned so that it automatically mounts usb disks async? 

sync can destroy a disk in heavy usage in a few weeks, due to the write
limitations, and I'd prefer to have the ability to control this more
effectively.



Regards,



Daniel


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dgold