Closed yaygya closed 5 years ago
What do you call full format? And for which partition?
Unless you have quick format unchecked, both the ext3
partition and the FAT32
partitions are being formatted in quick format mode.
I'm certainly not seeing any issue with quick format in 3.6 when using Ubuntu or any other Linux distros for that matter. If quick format is selected both the ext3
and FAT32 partitions are formatted as fast as the system lets us do it. So I'm inclined to think that, because you see the inodes and journal blocks being created for ext3
, you believe that slow format is being used, whereas we're actually performing a quick format of the ext3
partition.
A "slow" format is always very noticeable, especially with a USB 2.0 device such as the one you used. So I doubt you saw a "slow" format but instead you saw ext3
being formatted, which is a much slower process than FAT32, especially on Windows (for the record, we're using the same library as mkfs.ext3
for Linux, with very very few changes, and still it's about 2 to 8 times as slow on Windows compared to Linux).
Finally, if slow format is effectively selected, you will see this in your log for the FAT32 partition:
Formatting (FAT32)...
Using cluster size: 16384 bytes
Slow format was selected
I see no mention of Slow format was selected
in your log, so I can pretty much guarantee that, despite what you believe, slow format was not active.
I'm going to close this issue now, as I believe it boils down to user misunderstanding of what constitutes a "slow" format.
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<FULL LOG>
below.Rufus version: x.y.z
- I have NOT removed any part of it.Additionally (if applicable):
(✓)
button to compute the MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 checksums, which are therefore present in the log I copied. I confirmed, by performing an internet search, that these values match the ones from the official image.Issue description
I used Rufus 3.6 to format 2 Ubuntu USB drives. I noticed that Rufus was performing a full format regardless of whether "Quick format" was a selected option or not. I performed this test with both 3.6 and 3.5, but 3.6 would always do a full format. The persistent partition was enabled for both.
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