I need to move large amounts of data from one disk to another and then tar it up for back up purposes. I have tried cp and mv, but both take very large amounts of time with many ide resets and faults. The amount of data I am trying to copy is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 gigs. It is going from a fat32 fs to an ext2 fs. I also notice that when I use cp, my system grinds to a halt and the cp comand doesnt do much. From what I am guessing is happening is that it fills up its buffers in main memory, then doesnt flush it to the disk. If I stop the command and issue a flush then the system starts working again. But if I dont issue a flush the system remains in that stalled state for like a minute. I am not completely sure how to best copy this large amount of data over, but I would like any ideas.
I have 384mb of ram and am copying from an ATA 66 drive to a ATA 100 drive with a celeron 800mgh. Also a little off topic for this email, but I have been using 2.4.17 since it came out. Now this was the first kernel that I used the frame buffer. I always noticed it acted a bit wierd. Now I just installed 2.4.18 rc1 and the frame buffer acts as I would have expected it to. Was the frame buffer broken in 2.4.17? btw I am using the radeonfb. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
