logwatch and kernel messages

[Jason Shein]

On April 7, 2005 12:56 pm, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I use logwatch to send a nice rundown of "interesting things about my
> machines I may not have known", and I am pretty happy with how that
> works.  With one exception - when I move data on and off my SD flash
> memory via USB, I get hundreds of lines like this:
>
> 1 Time(s): usb-storage:  28 00 00 00 01 bf 00 00 01 00
> 1 Time(s): usb-storage:  28 00 00 00 01 c0 00 00 01 00
> 1 Time(s): usb-storage:  28 00 00 00 01 c1 00 00 01 00
>
> While this is amusing for the first couple of kb, after I move 600 Mb
> onto the card it gets pretty old.  Today I had to scroll past 42,000
> lines of of this stuff.
>
> So, does anyone know how to make this stop?  Thanks.

I have found that most distros do strange things in fstab for USB devices.

This is what I use for my USB devices. Flash keys, digital cameras, SD, CF, 
and it works well.

/dev/sda1   /mnt/sda1  auto   noauto,user,rw,async,noatime,umask=0077   0   0

Worth a look. Check it out.


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