polar sandal
Hi,
I'm trying to transfer around 40gb of files from a USB drive (specifically NTFS formatted external HDD) onto one of my machines. The files originate from a different arch machine that had no problems transferring the files onto the drive. However while transferring the files over to the new machine, it gets a bit of the way and then the system completely locks up, and becomes completely unresponsive. I've left it for a while and it never becomes responsive again, and requires a hard reboot.
The issue occurs regardless of the copying method, cp freezes, and copying through the file manager also freezes the system as well. I've done some research, a lot of people suggested to reduce the cache size, which didn't work for me either, and it froze at the exact same point.
I've been experiencing some other issues where the system locks up for a few seconds at a time at seemingly random times, so I'm wondering if the issues are related. I've checked the memory usage and there is plenty spare so it doesn't seem to be running out of memory.
Could this be a hardware issue? Or is this some sort of known bug?
Both systems have ext4 formatted drives, yet only one freezes.
Any ideas what may be going on? Thanks!
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