Felix Miata
On 2013-08-18 14:14 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
On 2013-08-18 08:18, Felix Miata wrote:
On /mnt/usb was a NTFS formatted USB stick.
I understand what you are doing, but perhaps, considering the size of the files, it would be faster to reformat as ext4 (without journal):
mke2fs -t ext4 -L SomeName -O ^has_journal /dev/sde1
I actually have sticks formatted as ext4, ntfs, and fat... depending on destination.
1-I loath situations that necessitate use of sticks for large files. I own few, and use them only when other options are unavailable.
If you care about large files, why don't you use FAT + star? star is able to reliably split things into a multi volume archive... just use a volume size < 4 GB for FAT.
2-Until I started installing 64 bit operating system versions last year, I never formatted anything EXT4. For compatibility reasons, I still don't, except for some / partitions hosting 64 bit operating systems. The AZBox ultimate destination for these files runs on 2.6.15-sigma. When its menu is used to format storage, it uses EXT2. I have no idea whether it would support EXT4 at all, much less any attributes EXT4 may have acquired between 2.6.15 and 3.11 kernel versions.
Ext* is only a good choice in case you never like to use anything besides Linux.
4-Choosing to tar the files to preserve attributes turned out to be a blunder. The only attributes I care about that are not easily recreated are timestamps, which is why I tried tar (not gtar, not star, but tar; BusyBox
If you are on Linux, it is most unlikely that you did ever use "tar" but rather typically gtar.
v1.00 2008.04.24-06 I must deal with has no star, no gtar). As the filesystem the original files were copied to USB from are on a HD device formatted with EXT2 and with both eSATA and USB connectivity, I should have cabled the device directly to the STB's USB port instead of having to slow copy multiply.
If you care about timestamps, did you ever think about star? Star is the first tar implementation that supports all three UNIX time stamps (star did this even before gtar exists) and star is the first tar implementation that supports the time stamps in sub-second granularity using the POSIX.1-2001 archive format. Star runs everywhere (even inside my Android phone), so I cannot think about a scenario where you cannot use it. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org