Guest cid Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Hello, Everytime I cd to /mnt either at console, or in Konqueror or other GUI, It takes forever (i.e. about 15-30 seconds) for it to refresh all the mounted Windows partitions (about 6 of them), floppy and CDrom. If I go directly to a windows partition: (i.e. cd /mnt/win_c ) there is no problem at all. In Xandros, my other test-drive distro, it refreshes almost as fast as for a directory in /home, regardless of if I cd /mnt or cd /mnt/win_c. How come the hang? Something I can look at to speed that up? D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Are you using Supermount ? Supermount mounts the removable media / other partitions for you when you start to browse them. This features seems really cool but slows down things considerably on my computer. Turn it off and do another test. Do the following as root: supermount -i disable mount -a -o remount MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cid Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 I don't get it, what would the benefit of this be? Simply that once it's done refreshing, my /floppy and /cdrom are already cached? That seems like a limited benefit compared to the slowdown of all the other browsing. I'll try that tonight, thanks. D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cid Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 I now see that supermount allows me to not have to mount media every time it's put in... I see the benefit now. I don't think Supermount alone is the problem, because Xandros uses it that same way with no delays. But I'll try your suggestion to try and isolate the problem. Thanks! D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 I had the same problem, but after running Mandrake Update it went away. I think its because it updated devfsd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cid Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 Same cause probably, though I don't know what it is. Upgrading to 9.1RC1 did the trick. D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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