Extremely slow speed when writing to USB FAT32 drive in Linux
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00:00 Extremely Slow Speed When Writing To Usb Fat32 Drive In Linux
00:34 Accepted Answer Score 13
00:51 Thank you
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
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The problem, as it turns out, was the sync option used to mount the filesystem, which appears to be performance-killer. Mounting it with flush option instead of sync solved the problem:
sudo mount -o async,flush <device> <mountpoint>