Ubuntu
usb-creator package

Improve performance by changing the block size to 8M

Bug #1949652 reported by Yao Wei
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Bug Description

This issue is found in usb-creator 0.3.11 in impish.

I found that creating USB disks in GNOME Disks is 2x faster than Startup Disk Creator, and here's the comparison:

Startup Disk Creator: 1:52
GNOME Disks: 0:37
With a Sandisk Extreme Pro USB drive (CZ880) and a 4.0G image

After I changed the default block_size from 1000000 to 8388608 in USBCreator._builtin_dd function in the Python file /usr/share/usb-creator/usb-creator-helper, this can improve the writing speed and making it about 0:30 to write the same disk image.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package usb-creator - 0.3.13

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usb-creator (0.3.13) jammy; urgency=medium

  * usbcreator/misc.py: fix compatibility with Python 3.10. (LP: #1962862)
  * bin/usb-creator-helper: increase block size to 8M to improve
    performance. (LP: #1949652)

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Mar 2022 07:59:39 -0500

Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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