e2fsck running forever on WL-HDD 2.5
Hi Wengi,
I have been running 2 WL-HDD 2.5 with the oleg's firmware 1.9.2.7-9 for almost 6 months now. I set them up exactly as you you wrote in this thread, for torrent downloading using transmission. I have to say your guide is very accurate and detailed. Thank you very much for your work. I really really appreciate it!
The first WL-HDD is using a 4GB old hard drive I took out from a very old Toshiba laptop. Even though the drive is very loud, it's been running just fine, the noise doesn't bother to me, because it's in the basement in the utility room. The second WL-HDD is using a new 160GB Samsung internal hard drive, it's quiet, and problematic. At first, I partitioned the drive as 512MB(swap)/10GB(/opt)/149.5GB(for everything else), the unit ran fine until it reached the 25th mount for the hard drive, e2fsck wanted to scan the 3rd partition, but it ran for more than 3 days, I had to kill it. I tried it a few times, it didn't work. So I thought it must be something I did wrong. So I followed your guide again from the very beginning, re-did the whole thing from the scratch.
Same thing happened, after the 3rd partition got mounted 25 times, it launched e2fsck, and it ran forever. This time I am sure it the problem with the firmware, maybe the partition is just too big for this little WL-HDD? (got be, because my 4GB WL-HDD is still running strong even after 50 reboots) So I again re-did the whole thing, but this time split the 3rd partition in half, so it's only 75GB. Sadly, it didn't fix the problem, it occurs again after the partition got mounted 25 times. After googling, I found this:
http://http://www.techds.in/2009/05/...partition.html
I am just wondering here, did you (or anybody reading this post) experience anything like this? Is there a work-around I can try? I think re-build a package is just too much for me.
Bob