Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .
It may help to only do defrag operations while entirely off the
internet. This was necessary with Windows machines when I worked for
the Navy a few years ago.
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, ?tienne Mollier wrote:
> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 15:26:48
> From: ?tienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .
>
> Albretch Mueller, on 2019-10-04:
> > Lately I have been noticing the NTFS partition being slower than
> > usual: telling me I am not allowed to open that partition and/or the
> > OS doing it itself but taking its time (like 5 seconds). The other
> > partitions mount just fine, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue.
> >
> > Is that disk partition somehow going bad or there might be something
> > else going on?
>
> I vaguely recall from the previous decade that NTFS is subject
> to noticeable performance loss while fragmenting. From time to
> time, you may want to run a defragmenter tool on this drive, to
> reorder file blocks.
>
> > root@mrme:~# mount --types ntfs --verbose /dev/sdc1 /media/mrme/NTFS
> > Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
> > The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
> > could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
>
> I've had that kind of behavior in a dual boot context, while the
> Windows system kept the partition still mounted even after a
> poweroff, in order to boot faster (sic) afterwards. I had a
> solution which involved disabling the Fast Boot capability of
> the motherboard for one, and second to always use the Restart
> button instead of Shutdown, which actually put the machine in
> some kind of deep-sleep. Which little luck it may just be that.
>
> Kind Regards, :)
>
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