Am 26.10.2015 um 15:47 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > I keep the portage tree under /usr-bits. > > # dmesg | grep sdb3 > [ 1.753508] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 sdb9 > > [ 4.833460] EXT4-fs (sdb3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Opts: > (null) > [ 107.205918] EXT4-fs (sdb3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > Opts: > (null) > > You can see the successful mount at 4.8 s; the entry at 107 s is me mounting > it again manually. > > I've rewritten the partition label, and I've run a smartctl test which > reported no faults found. I've also just reduced the speed of the chipset, > which has three settings: good performance, better performance and turbo. It > adopts the turbo setting by default and I've now set it to "better". It's too > early yet to see if that will help.
interesting ... What init-system? openrc or systemd? No trace of the actual unmount in any logs? Maybe also look/grep for the LABEL of the fs. Maybe test if using the device-name itself ( /dev/sdb3 ) or the UUID in fstab changes the behavior. I use UUIDs here without problems (with systemd).

