Porteus with ext2, ext4, fat32
Posted: 09 Feb 2016, 23:14
I spent many hours (okay, almost 2 days) setting up Porteus on a fat32 formatted USB.
I then read about the additional features available with a linux file system. So I formatted another USB to ext2, and copied that entire Porteus setup onto it.
However, I noticed some strange latency/sluggishness on ext2 (e.g. one example is that Thunar would take 20 seconds to open, versus 2 seconds on fat32). So I reformatted that USB to ext4 and copied the files again. But same problem. Then to determine if there was some sort of file corruption, I reformattted back to fat32 and recopied the files. Slowness issue was gone.
Could something about my approach (copying files from fat32 to ext2/4) be causing this issue? If so, is there any workaround without starting over?
I then read about the additional features available with a linux file system. So I formatted another USB to ext2, and copied that entire Porteus setup onto it.
However, I noticed some strange latency/sluggishness on ext2 (e.g. one example is that Thunar would take 20 seconds to open, versus 2 seconds on fat32). So I reformatted that USB to ext4 and copied the files again. But same problem. Then to determine if there was some sort of file corruption, I reformattted back to fat32 and recopied the files. Slowness issue was gone.
Could something about my approach (copying files from fat32 to ext2/4) be causing this issue? If so, is there any workaround without starting over?