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Why is an Ext4 disk check so much faster than NTFS?

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Mar 15, 202639099 views
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I had a situation today where I restarted my computer and it said I needed to check the disk for consistancy. About 10 minutes later (at "1%" complete), I gave up and decided to let it run when I go home. For comparison, my home computer uses Ext4 for all of the partitions, and the disk checks (whi…

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Fix for: Why is an Ext4 disk check so much faster than NTFS?

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There are two main reasons for the performance difference, and two possible reasons. First, the main reasons: Increased Performance of ext4 vs. NTFS Various benchmarks have concluded that the actual ext4 file system can perform a variety of read-wri…

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