Rufus ubuntu
UNetbootin Netbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) can be used with FAT32 formatted USB stick instead of a DVD for installing operating systems on bare metal PC.
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Maybe OP might want to run a bad blocks check (which Rufus can do) to validate that their drive isn't in the process of failing.When Rufus is only available Windows, UNetbootin is available as open-source software for Windows, Linux and macOS. Still, with a decent USB 3.0 drive, I don't think it should take longer than 10 mins to format a 120 GB flash drive, even on Windows, so I suspect that there is something else at play here. Mounting '\Device\HarddiskVolume23' as 'F:'ġ63839 possible inodes out of 1310715 blocks (block size = 4096)Ħ5535 blocks (5.0%) reserved for the super userĬreating 40 inode sets: Ĭreating 8192 journal blocks: There you should see more fine grained progress with something like: Using Ubuntu-like method to enable persistence
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Of course, this being said, if you think Rufus could still manage to speed things up, feel free to take a look at our ext2fs implementation ( here and here) and submit a pull request.įinally, you can always monitor what's happening behind the scenes in Rufus with the log, which you can always access by pressing the small button left of START or Ctrl- L.
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I didn't perform a straight comparison, but from what I recall from my testing, Windows is about 2 to 5 times as slow as Linux for ext# formatting when using the same drive. And even if you use the same drive and the same library, you'll find that Linux is much more optimized for carrying out that task compared to Windows. Unfortunately however, quick formatting an ext# file system still requires a lot of work happening behind the scenes, as opposed to quick formatting a FAT32 or NTFS drive, so, yeah, the larger your drive is, the longer it's going to take. We are using the exact same library as the one commonly used on Linux ( ext2fs) for formatting, which we barely even needed to modify. Now, as to the reason why the creation of a persistent partition might be slow, I'm afraid it has to do with the limitations of Windows, as well as how slow your media might be in the first place. So, if you want persistence with Ubuntu using Rufus, you definitely want to use a daily-live as well as Rufus 3.7. This feature was only introduced in 3.7, of which you can find a BETA here. Won't work with last official release (19.04) or earlier versions.Īlso, the reason why the persistence feature was clearly tagged as in Rufus 3.6 is because, outside of this pure Ubuntu/casper issue, Rufus 3.6 also doesn't automatically add the persistent kernel option to the GRUB/ISOLinux config files, which is needed to actually enable persistence (I hope one day someone can explain to me why the heck Linux distros need a nonstandard kernel option -since Debian and Ubuntu can't even agree on the one to use- to detect persistence, where they could just look for a persistent partition/file during init and roll with it).
That bug has been fixed in the latest (read post August 1st) daily-live of Ubuntu.