Thanks for: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 22:39:16 PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > If you are trying to put 110 GB on a 128 GB drive, you are probably > running out of room. Run "df -h" when the drive is mounted, and see > how much space the drive has after things like the space used by > formatting the drive,

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/2012 02:18 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 07:54:15 AM -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: >> On 07/18/2012 08:03 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: >>> rsync -rpvt --delete /photo/ /media/LACIE/photo >>> >>> the drives ALWAYS becomes read-only

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 10:40:02 AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/18/2012 12:18 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: > >the folder that I am backing up contains <25k files total, in lots of > >folders and subfolders, and afaik the max number of files for vfat > >(both 16 and 32) is well above that number > > How

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/18/2012 12:18 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: the folder that I am backing up contains <25k files total, in lots of folders and subfolders, and afaik the max number of files for vfat (both 16 and 32) is well above that number How many of those files/folders are being put in the root directory of

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 07:54:15 AM -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > On 07/18/2012 08:03 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: > >rsync -rpvt --delete /photo/ /media/LACIE/photo > > > >the drives ALWAYS becomes read-only at some point, thus making rsync fail > > > >dmesg says (complete output below) that: > > > >[62

Re: F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 07/18/2012 08:03 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: rsync -rpvt --delete /photo/ /media/LACIE/photo the drives ALWAYS becomes read-only at some point, thus making rsync fail dmesg says (complete output below) that: [625087.410234] FAT-fs (sdb1): error, fat_free_clusters: deleting FAT entry beyond EOF

F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

2012-07-18 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I'm running F17 x86_64, and I have a problem with one of the external USB drives I use for backups. Changing _cable_ doesn't make any difference. The problem never happens with my other drives, so the most likely explanation is that this one is slowly breaking, and it is time to replac