[Bug 541937] Re: Copying files to USB flash drive is extremely slow

2010-08-11 Thread kkietzke
It is also worth noting that this problem is not restricted to relatively small usb sticks. I have the same problem copying large (30GB) files to a 1TB external drive. When you have a drive that big - or bigger - 30GB files are not at all unreasonable. I've started booting with Fedora to copy

[Bug 541937] Re: Copying files to USB flash drive is extremely slow

2010-07-03 Thread kkietzke
I apologize for not having time to really test this, but hopefully this info will help someone who has time... I encountered a similar problem to Adam Porter's comment #5, using grsync. I tried again, leaving the computer alone overnight, and when I woke up the next morning, it was frozen. I'm