On 29/07/21 10:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> I just directly formatted one of my two Philips 128G USB 3.0 sticks with
> "mkntfs" and the write performance without VeraCrypt did not improve.
> Further searching the web I found that vendors were rarely specifying
> the writing speeds of their
Michael and All,
Long time ago, on Wednesday, 2021-03-31 12:21:27 +0100,
wrote:
> ...
> OK, unless you made a typo and the "minutes" were meant to say seconds, this
> is ridiculously slow.
Yes, it really were minutes.
> You could run some tests to see what is causing the delay. The
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:09:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I wish I could view man pages like I used to in Konqueror. It displays
> like a webpage and is much easier to search through.
I miss that too. I use mankier.com these days, which gives similar
benefits. I have a shortcut set up in chromium so
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:23:27 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > Yes, I also liked the old Konqueror interface. Searching for
> > keywords e.g. "progress" within man pages works if you preface the
> > keyword with "/":
> >
> > /progress
> >
> > will find it and "n" or "Shift+n" will jump forward and backward
Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote:
Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote:
>> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress
On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:23:27 BST Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote:
> >> Michael wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote:
> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option.
> >>>
> >>>
Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote:
>> Michael wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote:
I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option.
>>> Are you sure?
>>>
>>> This is what I see here on line 47:
>>>
>>>
On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:09:03 BST Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote:
> >> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option.
> >
> > Are you sure?
> >
> > This is what I see here on line 47:
> >
> > "status=LEVEL
> >
Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote:
>
>> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option.
> Are you sure?
>
> This is what I see here on line 47:
>
> "status=LEVEL
> The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses
>
On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:37:49 BST Dale wrote:
> I checked the man page, I see nothing about the show progress option.
Are you sure?
This is what I see here on line 47:
"status=LEVEL
The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses
everything but error
Michael wrote:
> You may want to run some tests on the sticks you have, if only to bottom out
> what their performance is on different PCs and USB ports:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/run/media///TESTFILE bs=512
> count=60 oflag=direct conv=notrunc,fsync status=progress
>
> Use a large enough file
On Tuesday, 30 March 2021 18:11:56 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> On Saturday, 2020-12-05 19:07:51 +0100, I myself wrote:
>
> ("> >" refers to Michael )
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote:
> > > ...
> > > A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the
On March 30, 2021 10:11:56 AM PDT, Dr Rainer Woitok
wrote:
>On Saturday, 2020-12-05 19:07:51 +0100, I myself wrote:
>
>("> >" refers to Michael )
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote:
>>
>> > ...
>> > A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
>
> Well, it's been quite a while, due to my being almost permanently con-
> fronted with more pressing tasks ... :-(
>
> To sum up my experience with my new 128 GB Philips USB 3.0 sticks: while
> the Philips sticks are significantly faster for reading operations than
>
On Saturday, 2020-12-05 19:07:51 +0100, I myself wrote:
("> >" refers to Michael )
> Michael,
>
> On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote:
>
> > ...
> > A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the default sector
> > created
> > by fdisk and friends on Linux these days.
Michael,
On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote:
> ...
> A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the default sector
> created
> by fdisk and friends on Linux these days. This will align your partition
> optimally. In addition, mkfs.ntfs will use 4096 bytes as the
Hi Rainer,
On Friday, 27 November 2020 16:01:29 GMT Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Since the USB sticks contain symbolic links and have to be accessible
> from both, Linux and Windows they are NTFS formatted, and according to
> "mkntfs(8)" the sector size can be at most 4096, while the cluster
Michael,
On Thursday, 2020-11-26 00:10:00 +, you wrote:
> ...
> Check dmesg to see if initialisation of the USB 3.0 drive throws up any
> errors.
No errors.
> Then check 'lsusb -t' to make sure it has been recognised as a USB
> 3.0.
"lsusb -tv" showed the stick to be USB 3.0.
On Thursday, 26 November 2020 00:10:00 GMT Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:37:15 GMT Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > since my old 64 GB Verbatim USB sticks became too small, I bought two
> > new 128 GB Philips sticks. Because I need to read and write them
On Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:37:15 GMT Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> since my old 64 GB Verbatim USB sticks became too small, I bought two
> new 128 GB Philips sticks. Because I need to read and write them on
> both, a stand-alone Windows laptop (not connected to the
Greetings,
since my old 64 GB Verbatim USB sticks became too small, I bought two
new 128 GB Philips sticks. Because I need to read and write them on
both, a stand-alone Windows laptop (not connected to the internet) runn-
ing Windows Vista and Cygwin and my Gentoo laptop, I encrypted them
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