On 05/15/2011 01:56 PM, Philippe Makowski wrote:
> 2011/5/15 Werner F. Bruhin<werner.bruhin@...>
>> Obviously this points that the problem I have has to do with the
>> internal disk.
>>
>> My fstab contains this:
>>
>> proc /proc proc
>> nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
>> UUID=02b1776b-57cc-4934-aa54-02acf90a6716 / ext4
>> errors=remount-ro 0 1
>> UUID=25bce7cf-5125-457e-b3e2-bf19f79703d5 none swap
>> sw 0 0
>> /dev/sda3 /media/sda3 ntfs
>> defaults 0 0
>> /dev/sdb1 /media/MyBookAVI ntfs
>> defaults 0 0
>> /dev/sdc1 /media/Kiosk ntfs
>> defaults 0 0
>>
>> The external disk I used for the above is /dev/sdb1.
>>
>> My internal disk is partitioned for dual boot:
>> /dev/sda1 ntfs
>> /dev/sda2 ntfs
>> /dev/sda3 ntfs
>> /dev/sda4 extended
>> /dev/sda6 ext4 root
>> /dev/sda5 linux swap
>>
>> All of this is on a Sony notebook (i5 core with 4GB) and I didn't want
>> to depend on the external disk, i.e. be able to travel with just the
>> notebook. I would therefore prefer if I could tweak the configuration to
>> have better performance with the internal disk.
>>
> interesting
> by default ntfs is faster than ext4 under Ubuntu ;)
> you can change your mount options for ext4
> you will certainly find this kind of post interesting :
>
> http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2009/06/04/mount-options-to-improve-ext4-file-system-performance/
> and
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1096467
>
Thanks for these.
> but I'm not a Ubuntu fan, and I don't know what options they use by
> default and their kernel settings
> so read, ask to Ubuntu users, test
>
There are lots of posts out there regarding SATA disk performance, so
have my work cut out I think:-( .

If I find something will report back here.

Thanks again for your help
Werner