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Re: Cygwin on a mobile drive: formatting options?
- From: tomas at tuxteam dot de
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:59:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin on a mobile drive: formatting options?
- References: <4961C7FD.2000509@bonhard.uklinux.net>
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:42:37AM +0000, Fergus wrote:
> Rather than install and maintain Cygwin on several desktop machines that I
> use, I travel from one to another with one copy of Cygwin on a mobile
> drive.
Connected via USB?
> This is formatted FAT32 as I don't need the grief NTFS provides for
> file access and attribution. A 40G drive is glacier-shift slow, a 100G
> drive was lightning, and the latest 500G drive is slow.
If the first answer is "yes": Is it every time the same USB enclosure?
Have you ruled out that the 40G and the 500G are connecting at "full
speed" (i.e. 12MBit/s) instead of "high speed" (480 MBit/s)? That would
qualify as glacier-shift slow.
Shooting in the dark...
Regards
- -- tomÃs
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