Comment 47 for bug 1906476

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Trent Lloyd (lathiat) wrote :

In a related way say you wanted to recover a system from a boot disk, and copy all the data off to another disk. If you use a sequential file copy like from tar/cp in verbose mode and watch it, eventaully it will hang on the file triggering the issue (watch dmesg/kern.log). Once that happens, move that file into a directory like /broken which you exclude from tar/cp, reboot to get back into a working state, then start the copy again. Basically what I did incrementally to find all the broken files. Fortunately for me they were mostly inside chrome or electron app dirs.