Re: [Cooker] Copying of large files to flashdisk fails in Cooker

[Frank Griffin]

Steve Morris wrote:
> Frank I have 1GB ram and am using an AData Show Me Disk 2.0GB (This has
> a graphic capacity display window on the disk). I tried DD last night
> and let it continue trying to write to the device for an hour before
> trying to kill DD, which GPS was not able to do via either of its kill
> methods (hangup or sig). The only way to stop the process was to force
> close the shell window DD was launched in and physically disconnect the
> flashdisk, this also prevented the machine from being able to perform a
> clean shutdown as the only way I was able to shutdown was to use the
> power off button.
>   

Check the dd manpage.  You can get it to tell you how far it's gotten via
  kill -SIGUSR1 (pid)
If it doesn't respond, then you have a kernel problem.