Interesting (?) problem:

I have two external usb 2.0 harddisks of 80 Gb each with an ext3 filesystem on 
it.
They are used as exact copies of each other so from time to time I want to copy 
the data from one harddisk to the other. 

There is where the problem is.

As long as I copy say 1 Gb data everyone goes ok. 
But the harddisks contain more than 10 Gb data and somewhere during copying the 
copy itself hangs.
The same result occurs everytime when I use cp or rsync or whatever.
After the copy hangs the harddisks are still mounted but I do not see anything 
under the mount points. 
I mount the harddisks with the '-o=sync' option.

When I do the same under Win'XP (with an ext2 filesystem driver) the copy is 
without any problems. Clearly I do not want to use XP.

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? Is there some magical other option 
I have to use when mounting them?

Thanks,

Cor

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