>>1280967>what's a good way to do it?You just gotta wait and let it do its thing. Your time is valuable, the computer's time is not, don't spend your time trying to find a way to save the computer time. Just set it going and come back when it's done.
>I think there's a more efficient way than this, there has to be really.>don't forget to umount The reason it's taking so long is it's leaving the disk in a consistent, unpluggable state at all times, which means a lot of waiting until blocks are definitely on the disk before proceeding. You can turn this off by turning off both these boxes, but you probably shouldn't because then you have to "safely remove device" every time it's plugged in with these boxes set, or you will lose data, potentially the whole filesystem.
