A week or so ago, I asked for help with a USB drive that seemed miserably slow. I got a bunch of suggestions, and have tried some things out, but didn't make much progress. However, suffering through another ultra-slow backup session, I started poking around in my kernel logs. I found the following warning: Oct 7 17:48:14 necronomicon kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device sda1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2 Oct 7 17:48:14 necronomicon kernel: Oct 7 17:48:14 necronomicon kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is reco mmended Oct 7 17:50:52 necronomicon last message repeated 3 times ...after that we start to see things like Oct 7 18:07:08 necronomicon last message repeated 743 times I strongly suspect that this is contributing to the miserable throughput. And the following load data: 20:40:04 up 9 days, 22:41, 1 user, load average: 4.69, 5.36, 5.36 which is pretty miserable for a dual P3G that's doing nothing other than running rsync and this emacs session (and the emacs session is even in a console window, rather than on X!). Anyone have any suggestions about how to make it stop with these damn warnings and checks? Thanks! _______________________________________________ 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