Slow transfer speed on FAT32 partition

[maliciouspixies]

Surely a speed of 6-7 Mb/s is way slow for a in built hard drive?cairo

[fatra2]

When you transfer your files, check what your computer is doing withtop

Maybe there is something else running during the transfer that slows down the process.

[maliciouspixies]

no, the total process usage of CPU time came to 3% at any one time.

[leigh123@linux]

What are you using to do the test, The transfer speeds shown in KDE are meaningless , for a proper speed test try this, just replace the /dev/sdb3 with the /dev location of the fat partition to be tested and change /junk to the proper mount point. sdb3 is my / partition.

[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/sdb3 of=/junk bs=4k count=125000
125000+0 records in
125000+0 records out
512000000 bytes (512 MB) copied, 11.3578 seconds, 45.1 MB/s
[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/sdb3 of=/junk bs=4k count=250000
250000+0 records in
250000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 19.2028 seconds, 53.3 MB/s
[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/sdb3 of=/junk bs=8k count=125000
125000+0 records in
125000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 19.3715 seconds, 52.9 MB/s
[root@localhost ~]# dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/usr/junk bs=8k count=125000
125000+0 records in
125000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 30.5236 seconds, 33.5 MB/s


edit/ I added more examples to demonstrate the command . don't forget to delete junk after you have finished test