RDS2216 fileman not allowing to unmount until reading all files!

I am testing RDS2216 and I noticed also on the second drive that I plugged to start my tests that was not formatted having plenty of files eg a windows installation, that it is automounting and it takes ages before fileman manages to read millions of files not allowing me to eject/format the drive.

There should be a way to either disable automount on new drives or fileman to behave differently not locking the whole drive just to read the files.

I know that there is a workaround to just plug it on another system format it and then plug it but what if I really want to plug this drive and start using it? I would have to wait possibly hours before I can actually use it causing huge lock on the RDS. Maybe fileman could read the folder contents once I would expand that folder?

  1. update to new routeros version
  2. use new winbox (4)

problem should go away

Oh yes it worked, it was updated it to the latest by today beta but I still had the problem.

The problem was solved by using winbox4 but I must say that I don’t like using winbox4 at all.

I tried to push myself to keep it a few days to see if it is my desire to not change winbox3 but after lot’s of yoga and blood pressure medicines I ended up going back to winbox3.

When I use winbox4 I want to throw my mouse against the wall as if it is the mouse’s fault that I can’t navigate as fast and read the information as fast.

I think that I was hardware accelerated when I was using winbox3 and in winbox4 I have to use my brain’s cpu again (which is not as fast).

Yet the fileman issue was solved… now I can open winbox3 again to continue my tests

Thx

unless mikrotik modifies old winbox to not scan entire disc you are stuck with v4

Just don't open the files menu in Winbox 3. :wink: