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Mr Muppet
10-20-2000, 05:47 AM
Hi Guys - I hope you can help!!

In my system I have two hard drives, although only the first one (HDA) was present when I installed Redhat 6.2. After installing Linux, *then* I installed the hard drive (then a FAT32 drive), copied the contents to the original drive, reformatted the FAT32 drive into Ext2, and copied the data back.

With me so far?? Hope so! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Right, now the drive works fine, but when I boot my system, it takes about 30 seconds to mount my second drive. A friend suggested I partition it more, but it still takes the same amount of time.

It's an 8GB drive, but the first one (4GB) mounts instantly. Can anyone help???

Thanks!

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Shad
10-20-2000, 03:26 PM
The only thing I can think of offhand is to try repartionsing the drive. It is possible that the partion tables are a bit out of kilter. Also is the drive detected by your bios properly?

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Devrdander
10-20-2000, 03:50 PM
All I know is I have a 27gig hdd that takes about 1-2minutes to mount as a /home directory, I think its just something you will have to live with, or try a diff file system on it.

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BobjoB
10-20-2000, 09:56 PM
wow those are horrible times!!!
i have 2x 60gb maxtor drives in raid0 that only take 5secs to mount , but it only takes longer becasue it has to load the reiserfs module, are you overclocking?? becasue that can keep resetting the drive casueing your mount times to take longer
Mr Muppet
10-22-2000, 11:54 AM
Thanks for your suggestions guys!

I'm not overclocking, so that can't be it, and my BIOS (despite being an AMI one) detects it perfectly.

I think I'll have to try to repartition it, and see what happens. If all else fails, I just won't reboot, heehee! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

Cheers guys!

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teeitup
10-23-2000, 12:51 PM
Read up on the fstab file.

The sixth field is the one of interest.

This tells the system if it should run fsck during the mount process. The bigger the drive the longer it will take. You can turn this check off by changing the 1 to a 0. Try it once to see if it speeds up the mount process. I would recommend leaving it alone.

Others probably have different opinions.

If you leave it at 0. There is a counter that increments on each boot. Occasionaly it will force an fsck for saftey reasons, you might prefer it this way.



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piix4
10-23-2000, 05:35 PM
could I interject?
think my drives were like /swap/ /usr, but now may look more like
/home/swap/ /usr- no all messing aside i think i booted and rebooted 5 times in total after making /home and the system was no buzz twice as fast if not more?
then i think I didn't do a clean unmount of /usr(hda 8) and i think it was fscked , after the system was half(original) speed- what?
why?