Arch Linux

webdawg

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Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 63

System Hangs - CIFS - USB

I was looking at the wiki and it seems like things just keep changing with this topic.  I am looking to get this fixed and work the best way it can.

Where can I find the proper configuration of automounting USB Pen drives for Archlinux?  I used xfce.

On one system I have udev rules from ages ago, and on another newer installed system I am using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/usb-automount-git/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … B_pendrive

I just do not get why my systems handle file copies like they do.   On one system I have a decent amount of memory and it seems like when I do a file copy half the data goes into memory waiting on the device to catch up.

I was looking at udisks from here (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … ge_Devices) should I be using that now?

I remember on the first udev based install I could not use thunar to auto mount because I could not tune some mounting var (sync or something at the time)

I get the curve on archlinux and will do what needs to be done but sometimes I wonder why this stuff does not work out of the box a bit better.

One of the changes that I was thinking about recently was in CIFS.  That is some parms changed and my mounts were messed up on a few of my systems because they are called something else.  In the end I had to look through the man pages and find the different versions of the same thing for each version of CIFS I was using.  (Different Distros)  They have somewhere where I can get updates on stuff like this?  Somewhere that may profile command line changes across versions of major commands and software?  Besides each projects site?

The real problem I am having:

I dd a sata drive, system freezes sometimes while it is going on (not so bad), I compress some files on a mounted cifs share (system unresponsive until it is done, some mouse cursor movement every once in a while, I bet you a terminal ssh session would look fine but might not, I still cannot switch TTYs though), usb file copy freezes system like the CIFS copy but less.