Am Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 01:41:10PM +0000 schrieb Michael: > On Sunday 16 February 2025 09:08:10 Greenwich Mean Time Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2025-02-16, Philip Webb wrote: > > > 250215 Michael wrote: > > > >> Formatting a 256GB USB drive, especially if it is a USB 3.0 or later > > >> spec, should not take hours, but minutes if not seconds. > > > > > > See listing below. My notes tell me that in many previous cases, > > > it has taken these rates to format : 2 : 6 min/GB ; 3 : 1,8 min/GB ; > > > today, it took 2 h 51 m to format a 64 GB partition (mainly inodes). > > I just formatted a USB 2.0 8GB stick with mke2fs as a test. It took 46 > seconds. Extrapolating for your 64GB partition it should take ~ 6 minutes. > A > full 256GB drive would take 24.5 minutes. I expect a drive enjoying USB 3.0 > transfer speeds to take way less than this.
Your expectations have some vague assumptions: - the stick achieves full speed of its USB protocol - it keeps that throughput over time - the data written grows linearly with the FS size USB sticks often have a bad thermal design and throttle down once they get hot. And hot they get, especially the high-speed ones. If you are curious, use a program like dool or glances to observe the device’s actual write throughput during formatting. htop can show this, too, but you first need to add a display meter in its config. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. For Sale: Parachute. Used once. Never opened. Slightly stained.
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