Re: copying data from external disk freezes with errors and halts system

dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 5.4-RELEASE box with a usb2 connected hard disk. On this disk which is formatted ext2fs is about 8 gigs of data i want to copy over. I mount the disk readonly and issue cp -R well around the 1.2g mark i start getting cmd_errors cp -R in /var/log/messages and i ha

copying data from external disk freezes with errors and halts system

Hello, I've got a 5.4-RELEASE box with a usb2 connected hard disk. On this disk which is formatted ext2fs is about 8 gigs of data i want to copy over. I mount the disk readonly and issue cp -R well around the 1.2g mark i start getting cmd_errors cp -R in /var/log/messages and i have to kill the