very slow deletions on ext3 USB drive

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 07:54 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 	Whatever turns you on. Nothing is as fast as format however. Did you 
> consider that?

Your suggestion was at least workable, but not much use in my particular
case.

My requirement, clearly stated, was to delete much, but not all of the
material on the disk. For your suggestion to have been useful, I would
have had to copy off the material I wanted to keep, format the old disk,
then copy the material back.

Depending on how slow the deletions were, how fast the copy was and how
much of the old material I wanted to keep, there would be a "break-even"
point with your suggestion, where the cost in time of doing the
copy/format would have been less than the cost in time of doing the
deletions. Working out whether I was on the good side or the bad side of
that point would have been very difficult.

Thanks, K.

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