Will copying files from one external drive to another create write tasks for my machine internal drive? how does that work?

Quills@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 34 points –

So, i use linux with kde and was copying some gigabytes of files from a smartphone to a usb device and while doing that the system monitor kept showing that it was writing some mb/s and i got curious, is said writing happening to my ssd or is it just talking about the usb drive?

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i see, will take a look on what iotop shows next time then, thank you very much!

Could you please give the result here after you checked? I got also curious if it's temporary copied to ram or disk before moving.