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From: Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:10:40
Message-Id: CAOTuDKp5PyfftjOGkt6YdbGwVqMJ1QeSKnhYgaDSCVuz0iBb9w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Peter Humphrey
2 <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > On Saturday 30 July 2011 15:50:11 Dale wrote:
4 >> Peter Humphrey wrote:
5 >> > One thing's certain: it's a good test of the USB disk! I just hope your
6 >> > power incident doesn't happen to me too.   :-)
7 >>
8 >> That would suck.  I sure did hate to lose my videos.  I bet AT&T does to
9 >> since I have to go find them and download them again.  :/
10 >
11 > I hope you're pleased to know the process finished. 23 hours to move a
12 > partition! Never heard anything like it.
13 >
14 > All I have to do now is to persuade Win-XP to find the disk. No luck so
15 > far...
16 >
17 > --
18 > Rgds
19 > Peter           Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
20
21 Ouch... that's a case of a read-write-verify with small blocks over
22 USB showing just how slow USB really is, I think. Parted does things
23 the safest way it can, and verifies things every step of the way, and
24 I've even had it take several hours to transition a third or so as
25 much data on an internal sata disk. Add in the limitations on speed of
26 a USB bus and... well, 23hrs sounds about right to me...
27
28 --
29 Poison [BLX]
30 Joshua M. Murphy