[kwlug-disc] Why moving file in encrypted disk takes very long time?

CrankyOldBugger crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 10:51:54 EST 2017


+1 on VeraCrypt.  I use it, it runs fine in Linux and Windows.


On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 at 10:47 Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:

> You'd probably be better off lighting your computer on fire then using
> McAffee products.  Try VeraCrypt instead.  It's the fork of TrueCrypt which
> is suspected to have been coded by some dev for some gun runner or
> something crazy.  But regardless it's been through a code audit at this
> point so it should be reasonable.
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:12 AM Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Now the hard disk of my company desktop is encrypted by Mcafee Disk
>> Encryption. The file moving is terribly slow now, moving 10GB data to its
>> parent folder takes forever. I understand file reading and writing are
>> supposed to take longer, But why moving files? Shouldn't this just be a
>> record change in file allocation table? It looks like it decrypts and
>> re-encrypts all the files. That's a NTFS disk, it this the same for other
>> file system like EXT4?
>>
>> Raymond
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