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--- linux [2020/11/04 17:05] – [See Also] open-source tag rjt
+++ linux [2022/09/01 17:41] – copying rjt
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 ===== Fixes =====
+==== Copying ====
+The progress bar when copying files from, for example, your hard disk to a USB drive, will usually fill up, then be stuck at 100% for a while. This isn't really a bug, //per se//: the bar fills when the data has been completely copied to the cache, then goes away when the data has finished moving to the disk. It's annoying!
+You can work round this by using [[rsync]] for larger files—
+<code>rsync -av --progress [source] [destination]</code>
+—or be more adventurous and mess with some system setup:
+  * https://askubuntu.com/questions/122113/copy-to-usb-memory-stick-really-slow
+  * https://forum.manjaro.org/t/copying-progress-bar-hangs-at-100-when-copying-to-thumb-drive/37108
+  * https://lonesysadmin.net/2013/12/22/better-linux-disk-caching-performance-vm-dirty_ratio/
 ==== Memory ====
 Not having a great time with the kernal's OOM((__O__ut-__O__f-__M__emory)) Killer at the moment; it's not doing the job I expected it to, and I'm getting freezes when I get down to about 1GB of RAM.
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 ===== Reminders =====
 I forget how to do shit a lot.
+==== Pausing Terminal ====
+You can pause activity in the [[terminal]] with ''Ctrl+s'', and resume again with ''Ctrl+q'', which I find handy sometimes when I'm doing updates.
+If you think of it beforehand you can pipe output to [[less]] or [[more]] or send it to a file, but I never remember.
 ==== Renaming Multiple Files ====
-For me, **[[mmv]]** has the easiest syntax to remember. You'll probably have to install it.
+For me, **[[mmv]]** has the easiest syntax to remember. You'll probably have to install it. Otherwise, most [[file_manager|file managers]] should support it if you want a GUI?
 ''mmv [options] [from] [to]''