Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote:
It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output.

I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre,
too. I never had problems with dump/restore.

My disk also failed recently with very similer messages.


The weird thing is, when I use the USB disk without encryption, it works
fine.

So, dumping a non-encrypted partition to an encrypted disk works. As
does dumping from an encrypted partition to a non-encrypted disk.

Only in the case of where both are encrypted it fails.

I tried testing the USB disk with smartctl, but it failed with a SCSI
command error. :-(

Roland
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