Am Samstag, 22. Juli 2017, 00:17:11 CEST schrieb gumb:
[...] Now, on plugging the drive into the router, the drive access light is permanently flashing every couple of seconds, which it never did before. If I touch the drive I can feel that every few seconds there is some clunking, though not audible. It seems to be in a seek loop. Plugged it directly into my PCs and same thing happens once mounted. Mounting the first partition on its own is fine. Tried deleting and reformatting the second partition with GParted on the other PC, and even with no data copied over, as soon as I mount it I get the same seek issues. [...]
Such disk activity is often caused by the "lazy_itable_init" feature of mkfs.ext4. It is enabled by default, so that "the inode table will not be fully initialized by mke2fs. This speeds up filesystem initialization noticeably, but it requires the kernel to finish initializing the filesystem in the background when the filesystem is first mounted." If you leave your new ext4 partition mounted for several hours (maybe 3-4) the disk activity should go away. Gruß Jan -- If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org