KDE mounts USB disk with this options: /dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,data=ordered) And is slow. When I mount it manually, without sync option, then write fast. I'm looking how tho modify the KDE mount in order to avoid the sync option, but I don't locate this HOWTO. Maybe the Hal parameters? Thanks. Regards, -- Benjamí http://blog.bitassa.cat .