crash on writing usbstick

[Brett Wynkoop]

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:55:01 -0700
Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I spent some time yesterday trying to reproduce this, and couldn't.
> The only usb thumb drive I have handy right now is 4gb, which isn't
> quite big enough to hold the entire ports tree, but using your tar|tar
> incantation it will run to the point where the destination filesystem
> is full without any errors; I did that twice.
> 
> You didn't say what you were using as a source for the copy (sdcard,
> nfs, etc).  I was using an nfs mount as source, which on BBB means
> that usb is involved as both the source and destination.
> 
> Hmm, I just realized the ports tree I'm copying includes .svn, no
> wonder it's so big.  I'll bet if I exclude that from the copy it'll
> run to completion.

Greeting-

Would you like access to my BB via ssh and also access to it's console
via ssh?

I have had the same results with several usb sticks, but all of them
have been at least 16GB.  I am also swapping to the current USB stick
on a swap partation, but I have had the same results on this stick and
others without swapping to it.

/usr/ports is on the root fs on the sd card.

-Brett




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