Re: [SD4L-user] Slow container creation

[Stewart M. <smm...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 06:51 -0500, Jonathan Coles wrote:

> Using version 2.1-0 built on kernel 2.6.35-28-generic (AMD 
> 64-bit), I find container creation is very slow. It took 45 
> minutes to create a 10G TrueCrypt 7 partition on an external 
> USB drive.
> 
> Is this normal?
> 
> The disk drive light shows a second or so of activity every 
> 30 seconds. When the operating system formats a partition, 
> the disk is continuously active for the few minutes required 
> to complete the task.
> 
> Thanks.

I successfully created a 40 GB Scramdisk container on an external hard drive yesterday (kernel 2.6.32-30, Ubuntu 10.04, ext3 file system inside the container, external hard drive NTFS format). I can verify that the procedure took (in my case) hours.

Also, on an external hard drive (FAT32) so far I've not been able to create any sizeable Truecrypt container. (Caveat: I did successfully create a small one, 15 MB, by mistake). SD4L quits when encrypting about 25 % through or so and tells me "unable to create backup file". Again I'm using ext3 as the file format inside the container.

Thinking that this could be a permissions problem, I'm trying to see if I can create the same container on my computer's internal HD and seeing how that goes. I'll post the results.

Stewart