Arch/Samba takes forever to delete my files ext3 format.

[yazyazoo]

I just got Samba onto Pogoplug and was trying to move 800GB of movies from my Win 7 PC to the Pogo. Sometime during the night the Pogo must have disconnected from the PC and I saw a bunch of errors on my PC saying that the folder wasn't found. Many of the transfers were cut halfway so I now have to figure out which transferred. I wanted to delete the folders that had the error and redo them so I wouldn't lose any data.

So I go to the Pogo and try to delete one of the folder that is 36GB and it is going to take hours. Is this normal? I am using ext3 format.

[winestock]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yazyazoo', 'I') just got Samba onto Pogoplug and was trying to move 800GB of movies from my Win 7 PC to the Pogo. Sometime during the night the Pogo must have disconnected from the PC and I saw a bunch of errors on my PC saying that the folder wasn't found. Many of the transfers were cut halfway so I now have to figure out which transferred. I wanted to delete the folders that had the error and redo them so I wouldn't lose any data.

So I go to the Pogo and try to delete one of the folder that is 36GB and it is going to take hours. Is this normal? I am using ext3 format.

[yeehaa]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yazyazoo', 'I') just got Samba onto Pogoplug and was trying to move 800GB of movies from my Win 7 PC to the Pogo. Sometime during the night the Pogo must have disconnected from the PC and I saw a bunch of errors on my PC saying that the folder wasn't found. Many of the transfers were cut halfway so I now have to figure out which transferred. I wanted to delete the folders that had the error and redo them so I wouldn't lose any data.

So I go to the Pogo and try to delete one of the folder that is 36GB and it is going to take hours. Is this normal? I am using ext3 format.

[Socaltom]

I routinely transfer 8 to 10GB over samba from my windows machine. this usually take about 15 minutes. I have multiple pogoplugs, and if I have to transfer between them I either move the drive ( if its really big transfers) or I mount the samba share directly from the other Arch Linux ARM install and I use rsync to perform the transfer. rsync can restart a partial transfer rather than needing to start over.

My record for transferring files is about 800GB, I was backing up my media library between two plugs and it took several days to complete. Ultimately I would just run rsync overnight and then stop the transfer during the day when there might be other demands on the devices.
Tom

[yazyazoo]

winestock,

Would I just do rm -rf then file name e.g. rm -rf /mnt/media/movies/MOVIE?


Yeeha,

I am doing it over Samba. I never thought about that but 800gb is tons. Do you think if I use a ubuntu live I will be able to transfer it over to the USB hard drive? If i shutdown the Pogo correctly, unplug the ext HD and put it into the ubuntu live setup and after transferring will that drive still mount automatically on my pogoplug?

So I connected my drive by taking it out o fthe enclosure and putting it into my SATA port then booted in Knoppix linux CD. I tried ot erase the old files but it won't let me. I tried to chmod that folder and it won't let me delet anything.

What to do?

[winestock]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yazyazoo', 'w')inestock,

Would I just do rm -rf then file name e.g. rm -rf /mnt/media/movies/MOVIE?

[yeehaa]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yazyazoo', 'w')inestock,

Would I just do rm -rf then file name e.g. rm -rf /mnt/media/movies/MOVIE?


Yeeha,

I am doing it over Samba. I never thought about that but 800gb is tons. Do you think if I use a ubuntu live I will be able to transfer it over to the USB hard drive? If i shutdown the Pogo correctly, unplug the ext HD and put it into the ubuntu live setup and after transferring will that drive still mount automatically on my pogoplug?

So I connected my drive by taking it out o fthe enclosure and putting it into my SATA port then booted in Knoppix linux CD. I tried ot erase the old files but it won't let me. I tried to chmod that folder and it won't let me delet anything.

What to do?

[yazyazoo]

Yup that was the problem. I wasn't root. Thanks