Hi group!

The title may be a bit misleading...

I'm on MDK 9.1 (all updates, etc...) and whenever I attempt to navigate to the /mnt directory it takes literally about 3 to 5 minutes to open up. It eventually DOES open, just takes minutes at a time to go in there. And the hard drive is spinning all that time as if it's searching or waiting for something.

Even if I try to open up other file browser windows, they are delayed until the original file browser window completes my request to see the directory contents.

I can terminal in and move around all I want, it just seems to be an issue with the GUI file browser.

Any inkling as to what might cause this behavior?

I'm somewhat of a newb with this Linux stuff, but I can get around fairly well. So fire away!!!

TIA!

Not an answer, but I have noticed the same thing on Mandrake 9.2. I wouldn't say 3-5 minutes, but at least 30 secs to get a listing.

Disable supermount and mount manually. Other way is setting mountpoints to somewhere else, ie. in to root /cdrom, /cdrom2 and so on.

OK, so how do you disable supermount?

Cool! Didn't think to try that.

Thanks, I'll give it a go.

Disabling supermount did it.

Good call! Thanks a bunch!

How do you disable supermount?

Well, actually, I went into my /etc/fstab file and changed my supermount entries to auto.

Here are the two lines previously ...

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom supermount user,iocharset-iso8859-1,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount user,iocharset-iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0


...and then AFTER changing supermount to auto...


/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset-iso8859-1,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset-iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,ro,umask=0 0 0


Hope that helps?!

As root 'supermount -i disable'. Any time you want to enable it, 'supermount -i enable'. You may need to reboot afterwards.

also, check your fstab file, might have trash in it...

What exactly is supermount? And what difference will disabling, or setting it to "auto", make?

At a terminal screen type...

$ man supermount

and read to your heart's content. It's all in there.