Hi Shlomo, On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:52:47 +0200 Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> short version: > I have a new USB external drive. The script I used on my old disk > crashes randomly after the disk mysteriously becomes read-only. > Re-mounting solves the problem. I suspect a hardware problem, but > can't prove it and I'm sure if I go to BUG with the disk they'll say > "It doesn't support Linux. That's your problem" > > long version: > I bought a new LaCie Minimus 2Tb as a backup drive. My existing backup > drive is a WD Elements 1Tb and I have a script that uses rsync to > backup all my partitions. The backup script works fine on the old > disk. Here's a sample line from the script: > rsync -rlvtogS --delete --ignore-errors /data2 $MOUNT/data > > BTW - all the partitions being backed up are on my box and the USB > backup disk is also connected to the same box - Mandriva 2011.0 with > all updates installed. > > The first thing I did was to delete the pre-installed Windows > partition and create a ReiserFS partition (same as on the existing > disk). I have no direct idea about your problem, but I had a bad experience with ReiserFS back in the time (on non-external hard drives), and later used XFS, ext3 and ext4 without any particular problems so far. For all I know it may be a problem with ReiserFS and I would suggest using a different file system. If that doesn't help with this particular problem, then you can try filing a bug on https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy Chuck Norris does not code; when he sits at a computer, it just does whatever he wants. (By: Kattana.) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
