Unable to fully restore Toshiba TransMemory USB after Ventoy usage — partitioning and formatting inconsistencies #partitioning #usb #fdisk #exfat #parted
I am trying to fully restore a Toshiba TransMemory 32GB USB flash drive after previously using Ventoy on Linux Mint, but the device is behaving inconsistently and I am no longer sure whether this i...
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Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS:
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Gaming on Linux with an older GPU levels up with DXVK-Sarek v1.12 bringing major new features:
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D7VK version 1.7 brings even more retro Direct3D gaming to Linux:
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Wine 11.7 Brings VBScript Fixes, DirectSound 7.1 Channel Support:
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Linux kernel 7.0 is out now:
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GNU Linux-Libre 7.0 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers:
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XOrg Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 Released with Multiple Security Fixes:
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Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl:
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exFAT For Linux 7.1 Helps Reduce File Fragmentation, Fixes:
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Why does #Windows fragment files on #exfat when you write them onto an empty drive one by one after each other?
WTF?!?
Does it try to be smart somehow or what is going on here? Now I need to defrag this shit even though I copied the files onto it just now.
Sigh.
Additional question how often can you defrag an SSD before it tells you to fuck off?
(Still microcontroller things that need one file to be in a single consecutive blob on the disk).
I've just moved a number of large files that I do not use often from an active partition to a backup partition.
What is odd is that the access speed to the active partition has increased significantly. Since that should not be possible, that must have to do with the manner in which the active partition is accessed by the Android operating system. Some research required.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4?wprov=sfla1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT?wprov=sfla1
#Android #filesystems #exfat #ext4 #Linux #OpenSource #programming #transfer #rate
🖥️ FAT32, NTFS, exFAT : quel système de fichiers choisir pour votre disque ?
👉 https://www.justgeek.fr/fat32-ntfs-exfat-systemes-de-fichiers-148521/
#Windows #FAT32 #NTFS #exFAT #Stockage #USB #Informatique #Tech
RE: https://mamutovo.cz/@xcabal05/116271609941010484
Původně jsem měl NVMe disk zformátovaný na #NTFS. Včera jsem zjistil, že po zformátování disku na #exFAT se rychlost zápisu zdvojnásobila na 1 GB/s. Rychlost čtení dosahuje také 1 GB/s což je asi i reálný limit USB 3.2 Gen 2. Špatná propustnost je vlastnost NTFS nebo jeho ovladač je v #Fedora Linux tak neefektivní?
Darn, this #macos and #exFAT easter egg bit me again.
Trying to rsync files from one external drive (APFS) to another one (exFAT) slows down before my eyes. from 900kB/s to 600 kB/2 in a couple of hours. 1,1 Tb of data, millions of files and moving the files to an external exFAT formatted drive seems like a mission impossible with no heroes around.
F...ck.
@[email protected] As it turns out it was about the filesystem format. While exFAT supports millions of files per dir and huge partitions, #macos writing to #exFAT is just very slow (and also appears to slow down the more you write). Reformatting external disks with #APFS made a huge difference - maybe 10 times faster writes and no slowing down during the huge 7z file extraction process. Extraction toos 5-6 days to exFAT formatted disk and only 6 hours to APFS formatted disk.
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