Re: rsync to ext2 filesystem issues

[Luis Falcon <falcon%gnuhealth.org@localhost>]

Good morning, Ramiro
El Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:58:12 +0200
Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> escribió:
> El 7/9/26 a las 20:06, Luis Falcon escribió:
> > Good afternoon, Ramiro!  
> 
> Hi Luis, thanks for answering
> 
> > 
> > That's a reasonably small amount of files. Can you rule out
> > a hardware issue of the drive itself? Maybe doing a (compressed) tar
> > recursively on the contents from the ext2 USB to your internal
> > drive? That would also let you compare performance with rsync.
> > 
> > Best
> > Luis  
> 
> I think the drive is OK. If it were faulty, we should see some error 
> messages in dmesg, shouldn’t we?
I agree in that in most cases, we should see some IO error, but I have
had issues, (specially with pendrives) where dd does not report any
error, yet the image is corrupt. Doing the same operation in another
drive worked fine.. so it's a bit tricky.

Best
Luis