Basil Chupin wrote:
Folks....... I thank each and all for the input so far to my question re the copying speed between to ext4 and ntfs formatted partitions.
But, honesty, none of it makes sense to me - all this talk about "user-space" and all that. It has only confused me more than I was ever confused when delving into grub and grub2. Especially this reference to "maybe USB-2 is the _next_bottleneck....".
Greg mentioned it already - "Assume your 28MB/sec performance is the fastest ntfs-3g can run on your computer. Usb-2 maxes out a little below that, so usb-2 was the bottleneck. Usb-3 is a lot faster, so now ntfs-3g is your bottleneck."
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).
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