Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:59:50 +0100
From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin on a mobile drive: formatting options?
Message-ID: <20090105095950.GA11219@tomas>
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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
- -- tomás
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