Simon O'Riordan wrote:
All flash drives die eventually; the individual memory cells are worm out
after about 100,000 operations each, and so over time the amount of physical
memory in the drive dies off.
Having said which, I don't know which file system is hardest on the chips; I
have
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:47 -, Justin Stringfellow
jus...@stringfellow.org.uk wrote:
That said, I would have guessed that a decent SSD will be able to
retire/reallocate flaky memory locations before they fail completely.
I tend to 'attempt' similar myself. I try to only write to a USB
C A Wills wrote:
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Sean,
It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
stick in question.
Whilst you can appear to have enough space in terms of what you /know/
is stored on there, a
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 11:56 +, C A Wills wrote:
C A Wills wrote:
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Sean,
It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
stick in question.
Whilst you can appear to have
2009/11/13 Peter Merchant mercha...@onetel.com:
As a non-expert, I am wondering if you are using a sledge-hammer to
crack a nut by using tar. Is it not possible to copy sets of files
across to the memstick and thence to the new machine?
This sounds like a very good point. This thread started
Hi All
Problem has arisen from moving/copying /Home info.
New PC is up and running but problem is I have not managed to 'copy'
across my /home area from the laptop.
Ralph suggested the following but I'm having problem:
On laptop:
cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
sudo tar cvf /home
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:06:52 -, Clive Wills cawi...@talktalk.net
wrote:
On laptop:
cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
sudo tar cvf /home /media/disk/home.tar
I think what you are after is actually
sudo tar cvf /media/disk/home.tar /home
The manual for tar I have on Fedora
Hi Clive,
Ralph suggested the following but I'm having problem:
On laptop:
cd / - gets me up one level to the / area OK.
sudo tar cvf /home /media/disk/home.tar
Not working - reports :- tar: home: cannot open. Is a directory.
tar: Error is not recoverable.
Did I suggest that? Sorry,
Hi Clive,
That's better it worked but finished with a error so i reduced the
pictures folder considerably and tried again, still an error:-
tar: /media/disk/home.tar: wrote only 8192 of 10240 bytes
tar: error is not recoverable.
Is that the same error as the first time? Doesn't matter if
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Sean,
It suggests there's not enough space on the USB stick.
It's worth checking that deleted files aren't being stored on the USB
stick in question.
Whilst you can appear to have enough space in terms of what you /know/
is stored on there, a large amount can
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:41:49 +, infocawi...@talktalk.net said:
wonder if this is causing the problem, is
there a file size limit on vfat?
There's a file limit size for all filesystems as far as I'm aware. For
vfat, it's 4Gb (actually 1 byte under 4Gb, but who's counting?).
Why not
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:41:49 -, C A Wills infocawi...@talktalk.net
wrote:
By the way the USB stick is an 8Gb one so should not be full; just
thought - formatted vfat - wonder if this is causing the problem, is
there a file size limit on vfat?
That would be the problem then I'm guessing.
drives as it can be very busy.
Simono
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