Ubuntu - File Copy Seems Resource Intensive

[Lea Gris]

Paul Puschmann a écrit :
> Gregory Piñero <gregpinero at gmail.com> schrieb am Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:55:55PM -0400:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I just started copying about 5GB between two partitions using Nautilus
>> in freshly installed 6.06 (first time doing this) and now that the
>> copy is going, anything else I try to do takes an extremely long time.
>> e.g. 2+ minutes to open Firefox, etc.  Is this normal?  Is there
>> something I should change?
>>
>> Much thanks,
> Test your hdd settings with hdparm.
> You could use hdparm -tT /dev/hda to "benchmark" your first hdd.

And if one need mass copy I found piped tar showd more efficient:

tar cf - /source/path | tar x --dir /destination/path

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