Craig Mayhew

ntfs-3g

by Craig Mayhew




Ubuntu: VMWare Runs Slow on NTFS Partition


I found the ntfs-3g process was using 100% cpu. Apparently VMWARE can thrash the hard drive so the workaround is to set “mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE” in the virtual machine's .vmx file and VMware will perform…
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