:: Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS
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著者: Joel Roth
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To: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS
Haines Brown wrote:
> Cron automatiically backs up some partitions on my HD by means of a
> script. Not sure of the size of thse backupos, but perhaps 300 Mb.
>
> I have been doing the backups to an external WD USB drive, and they
> took around 3 hours. However, I became nervous about the condition of
> the drive which is quite old, and so bought a 2 Tb replacement. Now
> the back up takes 10 hours.
>
> The only thing that I can think of that might account for its being
> slow is that my old WD drive was formatted ext4, but I thought best to
> leave my new drive with NTFS.


You can create a large file in the drive, format it as
ext4 and mount it. That will avoid the speed cost of NTFS.

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Joel Roth