ls -l hangs on mounted fat32 partition
 

Hello, I'm a linux newbie hoping for some help.

Problem is that ls -l hangs when I use it in any directory on my mounted fat32 partition.
I run slackware 10.2 on an ACER laptop with a precompiled 2.4 kernel (from the installation disk).
My disk structure looks like this:

/dev/hda1 mounted on /ntfs Windows boot partition, NTFS
/dev/hda5 mounted on /fatd partition for general storage (Problem partition), Fat32
/dev/hda6 mounted on / Linux partition
/dev/hda7 swap partition

ls -l works fine on any of the other (fs) partitions, but hangs when I run it on the fat32 one. A clean ls works fine on the fat32 partition as well. Also, after it hangs, I have to wait about 10 minutes until I can unmount the partition, because it says the device is busy. Also, I have no links to other partitions on that drive.

Edit: I just read another post about someone having problems mounting a fat32 partition, and I figure the problem might be fixed by changing some of the column 4 flags in the fstab, I'll try this when I get back from work.. Right now I'm stuck with windows :(

Oh, and another question. Is 1.7GB a sensible swap size for a machine with 1Gig ram? I hear alot of different opinions on this and would appreciate some feedback. I'll use linux mostly for programming and web development.

usually recommanded twice RAM size.
Should be about ok then. Not clued up to say more.
I do not know if there is a swap size not to exceed.

Try to run ls -l
and do a tail -f /var/log/syslog beforehand in another terminal
it will tell you what is wrong