On 22/07/17 12:16, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
AFAIK, the lazy initialization is suspended on un-mounted and should be resumed when mounting again. But it has to re-done completely after formatting the partition. Furthermore, it might take much longer when the drive is connected via USB. Or if the hard disk parks its heads or even spins down to save power and has to un-park them or spin up each time the kernel initializes parts of the inode table. This might explain the noise you've heard. Often, you can verify that by watching the raw value of Load_Cycle_Count smart attribute.
Seems you were right. I've marked the other thread as resolved. It appeared to just require more time. After copying the music over all was fine, no more flashing. I plugged the drive into the router and it's back to normal. Thanks for the useful info. I'll follow up on a couple of the other issues from earlier posts but it seems that I have everything set up in a way that works well now. ...which means the next catastrophe is already overdue :-/
Oddly, though typically, having just started another whole thread about this, I just clicked on the empty partition directory and there was no more flashing of the activity light, just permanently on as it should be. I'm in the process of copying the music over once again and will see what happens after plugging it back into the router.
Many, many years ago I owned a Hitachi "Deathstar". You should be really worried if your hard drive makes such noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSL50bvjLT4
I'd probably resort to the same action taken in that video! The one in the laptop I used for studying anger management issues made some ghastly noises like a record stylus scratching across the disc, but luckily only a very small couple of bits of the drive were damaged. After repartitioning it was good as new. Well, sort of. A victim of domestic abuse. I'm not proud. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org