Since Debian 13, when moving a file from an internal drive to my external, USB, 1TB HDD (in an enclosure), Debian is "lying" to me about how fast the file transfers.
Let's say I am sending a larger file that would travel at the drives max write speed of ~140 MB/s and take ~2 minutes to complete. Debian is showing it going ~480 MB/s and "finishing" in a few seconds...but it is NOT really finished. I can not un-mount the drive for ~2 minutes.
Any way to turn the "Lie to me" feature off? I want it to show the actual-real-time speed. I know about "hdparm", but do not want to install extra junk and have to learn to configure that for something like this.
*Using Xfce with Thunar file manager, if that matters.
Let's say I am sending a larger file that would travel at the drives max write speed of ~140 MB/s and take ~2 minutes to complete. Debian is showing it going ~480 MB/s and "finishing" in a few seconds...but it is NOT really finished. I can not un-mount the drive for ~2 minutes.
Any way to turn the "Lie to me" feature off? I want it to show the actual-real-time speed. I know about "hdparm", but do not want to install extra junk and have to learn to configure that for something like this.
*Using Xfce with Thunar file manager, if that matters.
Statistics: Posted by Dude Guyman — 2026-01-01 01:19