Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:11:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 5/14/19 4:23 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother doing

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 5/14/19 4:23 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother doing this, urandom will be the bottleneck and it will just confuse thin

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 5/14/19 12:34 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: Thanks for your help, David. But to boot the machine from a live CD I will have to pay a visit to the computing centre in Frankfurt anyway. So instead of running a diagnostic tool I am going to install the system from scratch, this time using a 64bit v

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 10:58:45AM +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: [...] # uname -a Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux So you're running a 32-bi

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother doing this, urandom will be the bottleneck and it will just confuse things

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Lothar Schilling
Thanks for your help, David. But to boot the machine from a live CD I will have to pay a visit to the computing centre in Frankfurt anyway. So instead of running a diagnostic tool I am going to install the system from scratch, this time using a 64bit version.

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread David Christensen
On 5/13/19 1:30 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: # cat /etc/debian_version 9.9 Okay. # uname -a Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux As other readers have noted, you are running 32-bit Debian GNU/Linux. It should not matter for what we're do

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-13, Lothar Schilling wrote: > Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: >> On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: >> [...] >>> # uname -a >>> Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 >>> (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux >> So you're running a 32-bit system

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:58 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: > Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: > > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: > > [...] > > > # uname -a > > > Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 > > > (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux > > > >

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: > [...] >> # uname -a >> Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 >> (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux > So you're running a 32-bit system, not 64-bit. Is that because you're > running o

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: [...] > # uname -a > Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 > (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux So you're running a 32-bit system, not 64-bit. Is that because you're running on very old hardware or a decision for some othe

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-13 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 10.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Lothar Schilling: > Am 10.05.2019 um 07:48 schrieb David Christensen: >> On 5/9/19 1:49 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to >>> give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 sys

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-10 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 10.05.2019 um 07:48 schrieb David Christensen: > On 5/9/19 1:49 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to >> give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become >> our main backup server. So I s

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread David Christensen
On 5/9/19 1:49 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: Hi everybody, for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is really very very

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lothar Schilling wrote: > Fast enough... > dd if=/daten/testfile bs=1G oflag=direct of=/daten/testfile2 > 10737418240 Bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) kopiert, 72,7297 s, 148 MB/s So this is sufficiently fast, but cp /daten/testfile /daten/testfile2 lasts 2000 seconds ? > dd if=/daten/testfile of=/

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 10:28:10 am Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... and its one of the reasons > > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond > > In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is > a tightly defined th

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... and its one of the reasons > > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond > > In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is > a tightly defined thing. > > There must be delays in

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > ... and its one of the reasons > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is a tightly defined thing. There must be delays in SSD firmware's processing, I suppose,

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 04:49:32 am Lothar Schilling wrote: > Hi everybody, > > for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided > to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to > become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But > the

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
Am 09.05.19 um 14:43 schrieb Lothar Schilling: > Am 09.05.2019 um 13:27 schrieb Martin: >> [..] >>> hdparm -tT /dev/sda >>> /dev/sda: >>>  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >>>  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec >>> >>> iotop -o (fo

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 13:23 schrieb Keith Christian: > What is the rsync command line, could there be a —bwlimit option in it? No, there isn't. Anyway, cp has the same problem.

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 13:27 schrieb Martin: > [..] >> hdparm -tT /dev/sda >> /dev/sda: >>  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >>  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec >> >> iotop -o (for rsync and cp) >> Total DISK READ :   0.00 B/s | To

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
[..] > hdparm -tT /dev/sda > /dev/sda: >  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec > > iotop -o (for rsync and cp) > Total DISK READ :   0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE : 476.15 K/s > Actual DISK R

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Keith Christian
What is the rsync command line, could there be a —bwlimit option in it?

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 12:50 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > [ replying to list, not discretely ] > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 12:36:55) >> Am 09.05.2019 um 12:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >>>

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ replying to list, not discretely ] Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 12:36:55) > Am 09.05.2019 um 12:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) > >> Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) > >>>

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) > Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) > >> I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main > >> backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is > >> re

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 11:51 schrieb Kevin DAGNEAUX: > Le 09/05/2019 à 11:46, Lothar Schilling a écrit : >> Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a t

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 09/05/2019 à 11:46, Lothar Schilling a écrit : Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. Welcome to Debian! I sincerely hope you will appreciate

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) >> for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided >> to give Debian a try. > Welcome to Debian! > > I sincerely hope you will appreciate Debian. > > >> I just set up a Stretch 9.

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) > for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided > to give Debian a try. Welcome to Debian! I sincerely hope you will appreciate Debian. > I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup > server. So I

Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Hi everybody, for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is really very very slow. Trying to figure out what's happeni

Android, ADB, a useful script for copying files

2013-10-08 Thread David Emerson
By request, here is the script I use to copy multiple files from my android phone to my debian box, over the usb cable using ADB (Android Debug Bridge) Prerequisites: - adb. I am using android 4.1.2, which requires adb 1.0.31 - busybox (I think you need root to install busybox, not sure) - turn

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
> Of course, NFS is not really an option if your source machine (or > destination) is running Windows. [In that case, there's always > Samba! ;-) I have seen nfs for windows lately, although I haven't tried it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Wow! Good to know there's an abundance of solutions to a given problem that can be explored. Thanks a lot to all those who have responded to my original email! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Florian Kriener
On Sunday 29 November 2009 12:23:47 Dave Witbrodt wrote: > > That's right. I've never used either tool before. Thanks a lot for > > the tip! > > Sure. If you're in the mood to learn about every possibility... > > You might also consider NFS: [...] Okay, if every possibility is what you want to

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Witbrodt wrote: > > Of course, NFS is not really an option if your source machine (or > destination) is running Windows. [In that case, there's always > Samba! ;-) ] > Not true. You can install Windows Services for Unix, and use that to moun

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Alexander Kaphuk wrote: Dave Witbrodt wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from m

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:28:18AM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > >>G'day, [snip] > >cd myfiles > > > >rsync -pavz --delete . 192.168.1.2:/home/alex/myfiles/ can I suggest to look at the S & H option

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I n

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Dave Witbrodt wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > G'day, > > I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to > copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on > another machine via network. > > I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > G'day, > > I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to > copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on > another machine via network. > > I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop runni

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop r

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > G'day, > > I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to > copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on > another machine via network. > > I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running > ubuntu 9.04 on to

re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze whi

Re: copying files on hd with bad blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/17 Tzafrir Cohen > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:03:52AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > I need to copy files from a ntfs formatted hd to a ntfs hd. What tool > should > > i use? > > > > Note: I only need to copy files and directories, not making disk image > > If you have a problem readin

Re: copying files on hd with bad blocks

2009-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:03:52AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I need to copy files from a ntfs formatted hd to a ntfs hd. What tool should > i use? > > Note: I only need to copy files and directories, not making disk image If you have a problem reading from the disk itself, consider startin

Re: copying files on hd with bad blocks

2009-06-16 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:03:52AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I need to copy files from a ntfs formatted hd to a ntfs hd. What tool should > i use? > > Note: I only need to copy files and directories, not making disk image Hi, You can use ntfs-3g. First, install it by running "aptitude in

copying files on hd with bad blocks

2009-06-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
I need to copy files from a ntfs formatted hd to a ntfs hd. What tool should i use? Note: I only need to copy files and directories, not making disk image TIA -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net

Re: formatting ext3 vs fat32 while copying files

2008-01-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 16:11:21 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greets. > > I recently copied a bunch of files from a fat32 flash to my ext3 > (~/Desktop). Some of them are cyrilics and became .mp3 or > similar. I can copy then within the ext3 but if i try to copy them to > another fat32 i

formatting ext3 vs fat32 while copying files

2008-01-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greets. I recently copied a bunch of files from a fat32 flash to my ext3 (~/Desktop). Some of them are cyrilics and became .mp3 or similar. I can copy then within the ext3 but if i try to copy them to another fat32 i get a bunch of errors, mostly "invalid parameters". Also when trying to c

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-07-06 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Zoho Vignochi wrote: Hello, There was a thread back in Feb: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg00129.html regrading a total system freeze while copying files. I have the same problem. Cannot ssh in, no response at all from the keyboard and I must reboot via the

System freeze when copying files

2007-07-05 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, There was a thread back in Feb: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg00129.html regrading a total system freeze while copying files. I have the same problem. Cannot ssh in, no response at all from the keyboard and I must reboot via the power button. The two computers in question

Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

2007-03-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
If you dont have/cant make a vfat partition there is another option. There is a windows driver for ext2 (1) (assuming that's what you use) which enables you to copy from linux to windows when in windows. Why not just use NTFS-3G? I hear that there is a stable release since January 2007. -- So

Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

2007-03-25 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:25, Wackojacko wrote: > > If you dont have/cant make a vfat partition there is another option. > There is a windows driver for ext2 (1) (assuming that's what you use) > which enables you to copy from linux to windows when in windows. > This can also be used with ext3 part

Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

2007-03-25 Thread Wackojacko
Thias wrote: Hello, Unfortunatly, you should have a vfat partition to exchange data between Linux and Windows using mtools. As ntfs filesystem and "write permission under linux" are not very friendly, you may want to have a look at ntfs-3g. On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:16:15PM -0500, Charles Bl

Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

2007-03-25 Thread Thias
Hello, Unfortunatly, you should have a vfat partition to exchange data between Linux and Windows using mtools. As ntfs filesystem and "write permission under linux" are not very friendly, you may want to have a look at ntfs-3g. On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:16:15PM -0500, Charles Blair wrote: >

Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

2007-03-25 Thread Charles Blair
With a lot of help from people on this list, I have a dual-boot system with /dev/sda1 as a windows partition (etch install). After mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 ./mntpoint I can use ls to see files in the windows partition and copy files to debian. However, I cannot send files in the other direc

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:18:05AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > are you sure its not a hardware issue? anything in the logs that > > points to the problem? Does it come out of the freeze or do you have > > to kill the whole box? > > Nothing in syslog, and no message i

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:13:52AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > > Does that tell you anything? > Nope. I fully expected to see DMA disabled on the drives. I'm clueless on this. > Actually I've found out that the bug happens only with the AMD K7 kernel > (linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7) but not with the i48

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Dan H.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > are you sure its not a hardware issue? anything in the logs that > points to the problem? Does it come out of the freeze or do you have > to kill the whole box? Nothing in syslog, and no message if the copying is done from the root console in single-user mode. This

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Dan H.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > are you sure its not a hardware issue? anything in the logs that > points to the problem? Does it come out of the freeze or do you have > to kill the whole box? Nothing in syslog, and no message if the copying is done from the root console in single-user mode. This

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-02 Thread Dan H.
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:57:53PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: >> Now my question is: For which package do I file a bug? Kernel? >> > My question is: What is the output of `hdparm /dev/hd?` or `hdparm > /dev/sd?` for each of the concerned drives ? kir:/home/dh# hdparm /dev/hd

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:57:53PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Hello, > > whenever I copy large files (1.5GB and up) from one disk to another > (different physical disks, not just from one partition to another on the > same disk or within one partition), my system locks up completely. Not > just X and

Re: System freeze when copying files

2007-02-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:57:53PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > > Now my question is: For which package do I file a bug? Kernel? > My question is: What is the output of `hdparm /dev/hd?` or `hdparm /dev/sd?` for each of the concerned drives ? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.c

System freeze when copying files

2007-02-01 Thread Dan H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, whenever I copy large files (1.5GB and up) from one disk to another (different physical disks, not just from one partition to another on the same disk or within one partition), my system locks up completely. Not just X and stuff; the console as

Re: copying files between ext3 and fat32 is slow

2006-11-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 25 November 2006 08:44, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > I have a usb drive which contains two partitions. One partition is > > ext3, the > > > other is fat32 > > Curiosity, why use ext3 on a flash drive? Have you tried to convert > it to ext2 and see any differenc

Re: copying files between ext3 and fat32 is slow

2006-11-25 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I have a usb drive which contains two partitions. One partition is ext3, the > other is fat32 Curiosity, why use ext3 on a flash drive? Have you tried to convert it to ext2 and see any difference? Ottavio _

Re: copying files between ext3 and fat32 is slow

2006-11-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.11.06 15:08, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I have a usb drive which contains two partitions. flash memory or real disk? > One partition is ext3, > the other is fat32. I used the fat32 to copy the files from windows XP and > the speed is around 10MBps. When I moved this data from fat32 to ex

copying files between ext3 and fat32 is slow

2006-11-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I have a usb drive which contains two partitions. One partition is ext3, the other is fat32. I used the fat32 to copy the files from windows XP and the speed is around 10MBps. When I moved this data from fat32 to ext3, I noticed that the speed is around 300KBps. I am wondering why is it so slow

Strange problem when copying files

2006-11-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I've just had the following strange problem. (using kernel 2.6.18.1) On a FAT32 partition I copied a directory with some big files (about 1,5GB at all) with cp -a . Afterwards i diffed the results (diff -q -r) and one file was different!!! I copied again,... this time another file was differ

Konqueror, copying files, and ACLs

2006-06-07 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Yo all! [ please cc: me, thanks a lot ] With version 3.5 (3.5.0bposomething on Debian sarge in my case), konqueror seems to have changed its behaviour regarding file ACLs: when copying a file, konq also copies the ACL to the destination file. Unix shell 'cp', and also older konq versions, di

Problems copying files from digital camera (sid)

2004-11-18 Thread Victor Munoz
I had some problem copying files from my camera recently. Could it be a kernel issue? Here the details in case someone can help me trace the problem: I've been happily using a digital camera (Minolta) for several months now. Since it uses USB Mass Storage, I only need to define an entry

Re: copying files

2002-11-05 Thread David Teague
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Richard Kimber wrote: > Subject: copying files > > Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, but > which will avoid overwriting files with the same name by automatically > creating a unique filename in the second directory, or is t

Re: copying files

2002-11-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:54 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:26 am, Richard Kimber wrote: > > Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, > > but which will avoid overwriting files with the same

Re: copying files

2002-11-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 November 2002 12:26 am, Richard Kimber wrote: > Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, but > which will avoid overwriting files with the same name by automatically > creating a unique filename in the second

copying files

2002-11-04 Thread Richard Kimber
Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, but which will avoid overwriting files with the same name by automatically creating a unique filename in the second directory, or is this something I need to program for myself? Thanks, - Richard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Segfaults while copying files on IDE

2001-10-10 Thread Mark Lanett
From: "Fabien Piuzzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I highly suspect the second one to be the source of all my troubles (as it > has proven multiple time in the past to be unrealiable) but the system > won't recognize the first one at boot time if the second one is not there > (not a jumper mis-configurat

Segfaults while copying files on IDE

2001-10-09 Thread Fabien Piuzzi
Hi all, I'm getting some wierd issue with my linux box, I simply can't copy big files between fs without getting a segfault. And I really don't know if it is an hardware or software bug. I'm running Sid, with a 2.4.10 kernel, on a Abit KT7 with an Tbird 1Ghz, there is two hard disk : hda: IBM

Re: Copying files over samba

1998-09-13 Thread tko
Jieyao writes: > Hi, > > I am thinking of doing something as follows... > > I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. > I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want > some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vic

Re: Copying files over samba

1998-09-11 Thread servis
*- Jieyao wrote about "Copying files over samba" | Hi, | | I am thinking of doing something as follows... | | I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. | I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want | some dat

Copying files over samba

1998-09-11 Thread Jieyao
Hi, I am thinking of doing something as follows... I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vice versa. I was thinking of w