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

[Frank Griffin]

Steve Morris wrote:
> Frank Griffin wrote:
>   
> > 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.
> >     
> Using dd to do the copy of the large file caused me another problem. I
> don't know whether it was dd or the fact that I forcibly disconnected
> the flashdisk as the only way of interrupting the process. The issue I
> have was that the entire contents of the flashdisk were wiped with some
> of the iso data being written the flashdisk, and the label of the
> flashdisk was changed to the name of the iso I was trying to copy. Also
> even though linux could read the disk and believed it was vfat format,
> windows would not touch it, complaining that it was not formatted.
>   
Well, that's interesting, but irrelevant.  Reformat the flashdisk and 
retry the test with dd.