Couple of things -- do have a way of verifying that the drive is working properly, ie, another machine? Also, did you mention what kernel version you were running? -- jeremy On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:37:02 -0500, rpgoldman at real-time.com <rpgoldman at real-time.com> wrote: > Argh. Well, as reported, I found out that the problem with my USB > drive was that the kernel wanted to run e2fsck on it, because it had > been mounted so many times w/o being checked. > > OK. So I *did* run e2fsck on it. It was fine. Then I started > rsyncing to it again. > > Same dang message. > > Oct 8 17:36:14 necronomicon kernel: EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck \ > is recommended > > I ran e2fsck betweeen 6 and 7 o'clock, but: > > Oct 8 18:11:42 necronomicon last message repeated 588 times > Oct 8 19:12:22 necronomicon last message repeated 251 times > Oct 8 19:13:23 necronomicon last message repeated 2069 times > Oct 8 19:14:24 necronomicon last message repeated 1925 times > > Seems like whatever mount count the kernel is using, it doesn't get > cleared by e2fsck. > > I tried manually changing it to zero using tune2fs, and that seemed to > reset it to zero, but the mount count immediately started zooming > upward again. So what gives? Is there something about the USB > protocol so that this dang thing is getting remounted a zillion times? > > Sadly, I smashed the mount counting (setting the maximal mount count > to 0), using tune2fs. Now the annoying zillions of messages in > /var/log/kernel/warnings are gone. But it's still pig slow. > > This seems not to be 100%, either. I rsynced to it last night, and > it was fine. Tonight: slow. > > Thanks for any advice, > > > R > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list