[solved] dolphin home folder on user drive slow to access, if at all

i cant access my home directory right now. i have it mounted to a seperate hard drive.
i noticed that it has been slow lately, but for the last couple days, it takes about 10-20 minutes sometimes to load the drives contents through dolphin, constantly says searching until it finally loads.
the access through the shell is fine.
i am using disk-by-uuid , could this be the problem? i have not made any changes to hardware.
anybody had this problem and know what it could be?
Last edited by wolfdogg (2011-09-09 19:59:48)

well, that program is night and day against dolphin, its working much faster, that is, until i browse to my home directory, then i get the same lag, it wont load the home directory. But i do notice as far as browsing the network, there is 0 lag on the network files, which is never the case with dolphin. But atleast it doesnt hang up like dolphin has been when it cant load the home dir.
yes fstab, thats what i was looking for, i am mounting with uuid, and im thinking thats part of the problem. i would prefer to use uuid if i can fix the problem around it, because i sometimes swap my drives around(havent yet since i built arch though)
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 #from fstab.pacnew 2011-0823
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=1bfda6a1-e889-419e-b636-9b65cd32d1e3 swap swap defaults 0 0 #turned swap off for /dev/sda2 temporarily for debugging
UUID=916db1b3-f70b-4f50-941a-f0f8ab2d6be5 /home ext4 defaults,relatime 0 2
UUID=92135cad-5b09-40b7-93a5-d64149a8f0ba /boot ext2 defaults,relatime 0 2
UUID=a46be4f4-1087-4202-b69c-e4ce55763a15 / ext4 defaults,relatime 0 1
$ findmnt
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/ /dev/disk/by-uuid/a46be4f4-1087-4202-b69c-e4ce55763a15 ext4 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,d
├─/proc proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
├─/sys sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl fusectl rw,relatime
├─/dev udev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inod
│ ├─/dev/pts devpts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000
│ └─/dev/shm shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime
├─/run run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1
├─/tmp tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime
├─/home /dev/sda4 ext4 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,d
├─/boot /dev/sda1 ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue
└─/mnt/smbnet smbnetfs fuse.smbnetfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=99,gr
[root@redtail wolfdogg]# findmnt
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/ /dev/disk/by-uuid/a46be4f4-1087-4202-b69c-e4ce55763a15 ext4 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered
├─/proc proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
├─/sys sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl fusectl rw,relatime
├─/dev udev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=496633,mode=755
│ ├─/dev/pts devpts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000
│ └─/dev/shm shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime
├─/run run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755
├─/tmp tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime
├─/home /dev/sda4 ext4 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered
├─/boot /dev/sda1 ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue
└─/mnt/smbnet smbnetfs fuse.smbnetfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=99,group_id=99,allow_other
and heres the descriptors
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320071851520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625140335 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x14b20cf3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 208845 738989 265072+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 738990 77553663 38407337 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 77553664 625140334 273793335+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004cef2
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 351630720 976768064 312568672+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 63 351630719 175815328+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04f50d3d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 63 976768064 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Last edited by wolfdogg (2011-09-08 21:34:52)

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export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' # end underline
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[04;38;5;146m' # begin underline
There doesn't seem to be anything suspicious in here.
@drcouzelis: No, the user-dirs file looks fine.
@Trilby: This is my fstab file, there doesn't seem to be an error:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
# /dev/sda4
UUID=6770128b-c26d-4474-b369-68b1802e1222 / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=aec81631-a927-40af-8a5d-85ca27e5dc35 /boot ext4 rw,relatime,stripe=4 0 2
# /dev/sda2
UUID=1D04-16EA /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# /dev/sda5
UUID=743ec024-dfe0-4b1f-a10d-7ecaf026bc85 /var ext4 rw,relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda6
UUID=b28a3641-1ae4-4545-8919-aab6c6781057 /home ext4 rw,relatime 0 2
Regarding the journalctl boot log: This is quite an extensive document but I can post it, if you want to. Maybe only some parts of it are interesting?
Thanks for all your suggestions,
Fazky

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I wish to use Nikon Scan with my film scanners I need to install Snow Leopard because it is the last supported OS since it includes Rosetta.
I currently have Lion on the boot drive of my Mac Pro and will install Snow Leopard and Nikon Scan on a dedicated drive.
My homefolder is on yet another drive.
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I would have thought no, but want to be sure.
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hi niel.
i just want to make sure i understand this. in part i want to minimize what i have on the 2006 and get it on the 2012 i think.
A. the home folder contains all my DATA and all my preferences and everything, yes? so when i tell sys prefs that it is on another hard drive i am basically storing everything related to the OS and my documents on this disk, yes?
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