Crash file for Nautlius attached...
** Attachment added: "Crash file for Nautlius HD to USB HD crash"
http://librarian.launchpad.net/4971336/_usr_bin_nautilus.1001.crash
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Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed
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Found the smoking gun: Nautilus died after copying 4294967295 bytes =
2^32-1 bytes -- a 4GB boundary error.
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'cp' crashed with the same problem, at the same point in the file. (No
suprise there.)
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This is odd: Nautilus was able to copy this file initially from one
internal HD to another, without crashing at 4GB. In this case, the
source HD was NTFS and the destination was ext3.
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Workaround: Divide files > 4GB with 'split', then copy the pieces, then
join them again with 'cat'.
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Aha! This is *not* a 'cp' or Nautilus bug, per se -- I think this is a
problem with this USB hard drive. Now the question is, is it a
particular idiosyncrasy with this external drive, or is it a fundamental
limitation of USB technology? (If the latter, then Nautilus --and
'cp'?-- would be improv
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report
any further bugs which you find.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
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