On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just as an aside (and I'm not discounting the possibility of hardware issue - this seems likely) what's the drive fragmentation like on the host drive?
The curse of installing an Ext3/4 container on an NTFS partition is that the container is subject to the same issues as the host drive....while Ext3/4 are not subject to fragmentation, if the host drive is, that can cause performance issues. This is why it's preferred to install on a separate partition dedicated to linux on a machine and dual boot that way. Just an observation... P
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