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Michael, |
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On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +0000, you wrote: |
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> A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the default sector created |
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> by fdisk and friends on Linux these days. This will align your partition |
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> optimally. In addition, mkfs.ntfs will use 4096 bytes as the default cluster |
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> size, so you should be good in that respect. |
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> Another setting you may want to try is mounting the USB with 'big_writes' - |
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> check the man page. This should help particularly with large files, which |
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> will use larger blocks up to 128KB when copying data to the NTFS. |
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Both, the VeraCrypt command line (--fs-options=big_writes) and the Vera- |
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Crypt GUI (under "Settings --> Preferences") allow setting this mount |
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option. But |
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$ mount | grep veracrypt |
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never shows it, initially causing me to erroneously believe it wasn't |
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set and to try finding on the web another way of setting it. By pure |
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chance I finally found out that |
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$ ps -ef | grep veracrypt |
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lists a "/usr/sbin/mount.ntfs" task which shows the options really in |
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effect. However, I haven't yet had the time to test the effect of this |
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option when writing plenty of really big files. I will report on that |
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later. |
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Sincerely, |
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Rainer |
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