On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 23:31 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote: > > PS: A few years ago I noticed an interesting behaviour in Linux. When > > rsyncing hundreds of GB from the eSata to the USB mounted drive I found > the > > file system to become unreliable and unmountable. A workaround that I > now > > follow is to add an "--bwlimit=15000" in the rsync command, which ensures > > that the eSata doesn't get too far ahead of the USB drive. May be > completely > > unnecessary now.. > > That's because USB gets disconnected and reconnected. So, /dev/sdc > becomes /dev/sdd in the middle of copying. > I had an issue with a motherboard, sometimes a drive would come up sda or sdb. So I stuck labels on my partitions and used those in my fstab. >
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