On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:45, Greg Madden wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 03:21 pm, Ryan Nielsen wrote: > > I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup > > data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), > > to use as a backup server. I am having difficulties with the drives. > > I tried two Maxtors previous and have swapped them out thinking it > > was a bad set of drives. I get various different errors copying > > files to these hard drives. I have tried different partitioning > > schemes, rsync instead of cp, and a few other methods, but I still > > get some form of error when I get into the process of copying. > > > > My only success has been with Knoppix. I used Knoppix and was able > > to copy and rsync just fine to these disks. I would like to use > > Debian, and not have to install another version of Debian or Linux. > > > > What I am getting at is, is there any problem with having a big > > partition or HD on a Debian system, or anything else someone might > > know? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >
This just sounds weird to me. Managing disks and filesystems is done in the kernel; there is very little a *distribution* can do to screw up access at this level. Maybe it is something to do with the mount options in /etc/fstab? Though even that seems unlikely to me... When you say "some form of error", what exactly do you get? eg "bad blocks", "invalid superblock", ??? What kernel are you running with your debian distro (what does "uname -a" report)? Did you compile it yourself? Apply any custom patches? How did you partition the drives? How did you create the filesystems on these drives? And what type of filesystem are you using: ext2/ext3/reiserfs? When you say "Knoppix works just fine", did you try this *on the same machine*, or did you move the disks to a different server to do this test? Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
