[kwlug-disc] udisksd slow to mount USB stick

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

This thumb drive is used to transfer scans from an HP multifunction.
So ext2/ext3/ext4 are not viable options.

Not sure if exfat will be readable/writeable on the HP either.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Villarreal
<youcanlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> ... # badblocks -b4096 -swv /dev/sdb ... Pass completed, 0 bad
>> blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)
>>
>>> 2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M oflag=direct
>> dd: error writing ‘/dev/sdb’: No space left on device...
>>
>> So no media errors in both commands.
>>
>> I used fdisk to create a partition, and created a vfat filesystem.
>>
>> Same lag. Took 1 minute 20 seconds from sdb1 being recognized, to
>> udisksd mounting it.
>
> What happens if you create an ext[2|3|4] filesystem? Any improvement
> in speed?
>
> Have you considered exfat file system ?
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=exfat&t=h&ia=about
>
> You might find this useful...
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/best-fstab-options-for
> - -vfat-partition-390903/
>
> Daniel Villarreal
> http://www.youcanlinux.org
> youcanlinux at gmail.com
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