[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

[Ivan Avery Frey]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 23:31 William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I had an issue with a motherboard, sometimes a drive would come up sda or
sdb. So I stuck labels on my partitions and used those in my fstab.

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