Re: big file problem
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Robert Wilderspin wrote:
> On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, sevinian@crdlx2.yerphi.am wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD
> >Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply
> >'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work
> >with big files (~400M). First I used 'dd' to make copy but system hungs at
> >some point. Then I decided to use 'cp' and I got a lot of horrible
> >messages about disk errors. As I remember, during 'mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdx'
> >there was only "read only testing". Is there any way to do read/write
> >test? Or, may there are other idea about this problem?
>
> The best way I know to perform a direct copy of one disk to another is
> the following:
>
> cd /
> find . -xdev -print | cpio -padm /mnt
>
> Where you're copying everything from the root filesystem downwards,
> including mount points (but not their contents), onto a filesystem
> mounted at /mnt.
It seems that system is working fine. Bad things occur when I copy
big file on separate partition (/home).
Thats why my main at this point concern is to perform read&write testing
of harddisk. Unfortunatly I don't know which utilites I should use for
this propose.
Tthanks for any advice,
Eugene Sevinian
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