On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 05:36:19PM -0400, .. ink .. wrote: > Sorry for my previous email without a title,resending the email with a > title this time. [...] > A user of cryptsetup(through zuluCrypt) asked me a question i can not > answer and asking it here. > > [root <at> sheep 8] ~ > dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=70M count=1 > 1+0 Datensätze ein > 1+0 Datensätze aus > 73400320 Bytes (73 MB) kopiert, 2,58497 s, 28,4 MB/s [...] Is this over USB or on an USB memory-stick? If this is a regular HDD, something seems to be slowing it down already. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt