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Date:      Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:22:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bug in cp(1) or a filesystem problem?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904071121070.4368-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990407164542.A2018@marder-1.localhost>

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On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:

> I was trying to copy a whole directory tree to a new disk using:
> 
> ``cp -p -r marko /mnt/usr/''
> 
> There's about 29,000 files (~560MB). After about 80% has been copied
> cp just hangs. ps(1) shows it as idle. I tried again, same thing.
> I identified the sub-dirs that hadn't been copied and copied them
> (cp -p -r) one at a time. This worked for all but one directory.
> 
> I tried several times, but this one dir (which contains sub-dirs)
> just hangs cp.
> 
> I dropped to single-user, umnounted the filesystems and fsck'd both
> the source and target filesystems, no errors reported.

Can you read (ie, `cat') all the files in that directory?  Are there any
errors from the disk subsystem?

> Program received signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user).
> 0x804a94c in _open ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x804a94c in _open ()
> #1  0x8048cb1 in copy_file (entp=0x8070600, dne=1) at utils.c:70
> #2  0x8048bb9 in copy (argv=0xefbfdaa8, type=FILE_TO_DIR, fts_options=6)
>     at cp.c:407
> #3  0x8048665 in main (argc=1, argv=0xefbfdaa8) at cp.c:240
> #4  0x80480e9 in _start ()
> (gdb)
> 
> Unfortunately this is about the limit of my gdb skills.

You need to parse entp to grab what filename it's currently processing.

Doug White                               
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