On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2011 15:50:11 Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > One thing's certain: it's a good test of the USB disk! I just hope your >> > power incident doesn't happen to me too. :-) >> >> That would suck. I sure did hate to lose my videos. I bet AT&T does to >> since I have to go find them and download them again. :/ > > I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a > partition! Never heard anything like it. > > All I have to do now is to persuade Win-XP to find the disk. No luck so > far... > > -- > Rgds > Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
Ouch... that's a case of a read-write-verify with small blocks over USB showing just how slow USB really is, I think. Parted does things the safest way it can, and verifies things every step of the way, and I've even had it take several hours to transition a third or so as much data on an internal sata disk. Add in the limitations on speed of a USB bus and... well, 23hrs sounds about right to me... -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
