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
>
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