On 27/03/13 18:58, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-03-27 17:54 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
Now, just to throw the spanner into what otherwise would be a very dull situation :-) , I just copied a 7.1GB file to the external Seagate's ntfs formatted partition using the stock standard cp command and this took something like ~4 minutes as against what mc took to copy a smaller file last night of ~15 minutes (working from memory here I fully admit).
Were you perchance using MC's ftp connection to make its copy, but a Samba or NFS connection for the cp?
I go to the icon which will start the terminal console. I type in mc and mc runs. I highlight the destination directory, and I highlight the source directory and file. I press F5 and mc starts to copy the file from the source to the destination, and as the copying progresses I get displayed the speed of the transfer and how much of the file has been copied so far and how much is yet to be copied and the ETA of the transfer. Re using the cli 'cp', I open a terminal, type in 'cp <file-to-be-copied> <destination-for-the-copy> and press ENTER. Now, you tell me if I was using ftp connection or a Samba or NFS connection? Not that long ago I modified my sig line but I decided to bring it back to read: Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 KDE 4.10.1 & kernel 3.8.4-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU which should avoid having to explain what else my system is using. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 KDE 4.10.1 & kernel 3.8.4-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org