[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
William Park
opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Wed Jul 27 23:31:33 EDT 2016
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.
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William
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