copying files (speed)

[Rashkae]

Rick wrote:

> Hi, My External Hard Drive is a 500GB USB 2 formated with NTFS
> my Internal Hard Drive, is a 500GB Seagate, formated with ext3
> 
> Should I reformat the external hard drive, with a different format,
> NTFS...????
> 
> 
> What would you recommend for a removable usb external hard drive ?
> 

For myself, if I didn't need Windows to be able to access the drive, I
would use ext3, no question.  (Unless I needed XFS for some of it's
performance boosts, but that comes with caveats that can bite you in the
arse if you don't understand them very well.)  When I do need Windows to
access a drive, I use FAT32 filesystem, but that is rather limited, and
not a Journaled FS so probably not really a great choice (or even an
option) for a 500GB device.

But before you take this suggestion and run with it, I really have no
knowledge that the problem you described is with the Linux
implementation of NTFS.  I wouldn't be the least surprised, but just
don't know.