Hey Cor and the gang; It would certainly help us to help you if you let us see what script you are using to do this copying.
Very best regards; Bob Finch > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
