Re: big file problem
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Robert Wilderspin wrote: On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply 'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work with big files (~400M). First I used 'dd' to make copy but system hungs at some point. Then I decided to use 'cp' and I got a lot of horrible messages about disk errors. As I remember, during 'mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdx' there was only read only testing. Is there any way to do read/write test? Or, may there are other idea about this problem? The best way I know to perform a direct copy of one disk to another is the following: cd / find . -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt Where you're copying everything from the root filesystem downwards, including mount points (but not their contents), onto a filesystem mounted at /mnt. It seems that system is working fine. Bad things occur when I copy big file on separate partition (/home). Thats why my main at this point concern is to perform readwrite testing of harddisk. Unfortunatly I don't know which utilites I should use for this propose. Tthanks for any advice, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873
big file problem
Hi All, today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply 'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work with big files (~400M). First I used 'dd' to make copy but system hungs at some point. Then I decided to use 'cp' and I got a lot of horrible messages about disk errors. As I remember, during 'mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdx' there was only read only testing. Is there any way to do read/write test? Or, may there are other idea about this problem? TIA, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873
Re: big file problem
On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply 'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work with big files (~400M). First I used 'dd' to make copy but system hungs at some point. Then I decided to use 'cp' and I got a lot of horrible messages about disk errors. As I remember, during 'mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdx' there was only read only testing. Is there any way to do read/write test? Or, may there are other idea about this problem? The best way I know to perform a direct copy of one disk to another is the following: cd / find . -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt Where you're copying everything from the root filesystem downwards, including mount points (but not their contents), onto a filesystem mounted at /mnt. I hope that this helps you. Rob Wilderspin -- But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep... --= (send replies to rob@)
