Hello everyone,
I’m turning to you in the hope of getting some of my sanity back. I’ve been trying to move a bunch of movies (around 400GB) to my 1TB external Seagate drive from my headless Linux server running Ubuntu.
I’ve been using Gemini to help me find the right commands, but the AI has definitely hit its limits. The situation is so absurd that without human help, I think I'll end up in a psychiatric ward.
So I’ve tried everything : I was initially advised to format the disk to NTFS and use rsync to transfer the data. After 10 tries and 10 failures, I realized how absurd that setup was. Now I’ve formatted it to ExFAT and I'm trying to use cp, but I still can't get the transfer done.
Every time the copy fails, I have to stop the command and try to sync, which also fails. Then I try to umount, which usually fails too. Then the disk gets corrupted and I have to start over from scratch.
In my latest attempts, I batched my movies into 80GB folders. I managed to transfer two of them before the third one failed, and now I'm stuck at sync again. Apparently, I have 2GB of "dirty RAM" that's flushing at the exceptional rate of 8kb/s, so I'll have to redo the whole process all over again. Gemini keeps saying it's all about "SMR sickness," but I haven't had any issues with this drive on macOS, so I don't think the hardware is the issue right now.
I think I’ve tried to transfer these movies 30 times now. Is this a thing? I'm having a hard time realizing how absurd this is, but can someone explain why I can't manage to just transfer my movies from Linux to this drive? I must be doing something wrong, but all the AIs in the world have no clue how to help me.
Many thanks in advance!