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Why is copying to USB stick on Linux so damn slow?
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rsync -aP /
I find it faster and more reliable than most GUI explorers
-avPI do
-azPfor compressioncompression is good when copying over the network, but would just waste cpu time when copying to a usb stick.
that's good if your data is not already compressed, otherwise is more of a CPU waste
images, videos, audio, game assets, standardized data files, and a bunch of other things are likely already compressed.