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Originally Posted by Corpsegoddess
Yep, that's exactly what I thought, and one of the reasons I wanted to do that. Like I mentioned to Taming, I like to go by Occam's Razor in these sort of situations. And the more variables I can eliminate from my list, the happier I am.  |
After some mucking around, what appears to be happening is on power up, a file system check (dosfsck) is being run on the uSD card. If I power up with the SD card removed, dosfsck is run when the card is inserted. The larger the card, the more time it takes for the check which seems to indicate it is being run with the -t option so it is scanning for bad clusters after checking the files.
With my book collection on the internal card, the power up is normal. Now to have the fun of modifying the boot scripts to allow me to use ext3 on the external card just to see how it behaves.
What pointed in the direction of an fsck is that after I deleted and replaced an ebook using Calibre and did a power cycle, I noted that I had two fsckxxxx.rec files generated which were the medium and small thumbnails from the deleted book.
Regards,
David