[mythtv-users] Problems with External USB Drives

[Jonno]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I finally had chance to get it defrag'd and changed the
> allocation size to 512m. I had to change my /etc/fstab entry to mount
> via the UUID rather than the /dev/sdb1 notation that I had been using
> since it was now showing up as sdd1 (not sure why that changed).
> Before I did all this I took the drive out and attached it directly to
> the motherboard of my desktop system and ran Spinrite at level 2. It
> found no problems other than seek errors.
>

So far so good though it's only been a couple of days. I also set the
defrag to run as a cron job in the middle of the night and this
morning the frag level had dropped from 11% back down to 3% so things
are looking promising.