You don't have to reboot right away.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:55 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:31:50 -0700 > Russell Senior <[email protected]> dijo: > > >How about an "sudo apt update" first? > > Omigod, there are updates available. Wait ... you knew that, didn't > you? <Big grin> > > So I installed them. They weren't listed in Synaptic, but the little > Ubuntu Update Manager had them, so I let it install them. But when it > finished it wanted me to restart the computer, and that is a problem > for the next three days. That's because I'm still trying to copy all my > work off the problem 128GB exFAT drive. It's finished only 31% of the > 13.9GB of files, and my calculations say about three more days, more or > less. I shouldn't have let it go this long, and there is no other > backup. > > I'd just kill the thing and finish it after rebooting, but it's not > copying them in alphabetical order. There are about 1400 files and it > would be a major pain to figure out which ones are already copied and > which are not. Maybe I can figure out a command to copy only if the > file is not already on the destination, 'cause otherwise there would be > hundreds of 'skip or overwrite?' error messages.
