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fiod

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Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Delete time on NTFS and EXT3

Hey,

I got two partitions on my laptop, one is EXT3 and the other is NTFS.

Tried deleting today 2 .avi files, total size 1.5 GB. On the ext3 partition, it took about 5 seconds to complete the deletion.
On the NTFS partition, it took less than a second.

I am wondering if I have something configured wrong on my ext3 partition, or if this is a normal behavior.

In general, all file copying or other operations seems to slow on the ext3 partition.

This is my fstab:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults,noatime            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults,noatime            0      0

/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0               /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0      0
/dev/sda2               /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,users     0 0

/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0

thanks a lot
fiod

Last edited by fiod (2008-06-07 05:47:38)

vogt

Member

From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: Delete time on NTFS and EXT3

sda2 should be faster than sda6, since the first partition is on the outermost edge of the disk.

But a 10x difference would not be solely due to that difference.

I guess ext3 is slower by default. You could try playing with the journaling options (man mount), but then again, what you did wasn't exactly a rigorous test.