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Discovered a terrible bug in file copy (cp) - Larz60+ - May-02-2019 ** BE WARNED ** This may be a Linux Mint or Debian issue, or may be related to the driver, not sure, but at any rate, it can destroy your Boot disk (I just recovered from this). I was running Linux Mint 19. here's what lead up to the problem.
to the hard drive. I don't know if this is reproducible, (if it is indeed memory mapped I/O problem, arrangement of these mem vectors may very well be different from install to install) and I don't want to try and find out. All I can advise is to be very careful when writing to one of these devices. RE: Discovered a terrible bug in file copy (cp) - Gribouillis - May-02-2019 You could perhaps file a bug report to the GNU Coreutils developers... RE: Discovered a terrible bug in file copy (cp) - Larz60+ - May-03-2019 It's on my list and will get done later today. I'm under pressure to finish some work, and getting my OS back took most of yesterday. So I'm running half fast. |