Created attachment 69032 [details] dmesg I tried mounting a ISO file I have on my hard disk to /mnt, then copying the data from the ISO file to my HDD, both the ISO file and all the data are in the same HDD/partition. Here is what I tried: $ mount -o uid=1000 -t iso9660 /home/diego/tmp/Dead\ Space\ 2/flt-ds2a.iso /mnt $ cp -a /mnt/* ~/ds However, after a while of waiting for the data to copy, I noticed the HDD I/O and CPU utilization stopped at all. I tried to kill the process but the machine just froze, and I got tons of errors in dmesg (please see the file attached). I tried to get the ISO file again, but the problem still persisted. I read this ISO and game has some DRM on it, could this be the cause? The size of this ISO file is about 5.5 GB. I will try to reproduce the problem with other ISOs also and report back anything I find. My machine specs: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz Arch Linux x86-64 2 GB of RAM. kernel 3.0.1 Thanks.
I tried running a $(badblocks /dev/sda) in case if it was my HDD that was failing but it didn't found any errors.
oh I actually mounted the ISO file with this: $ mount -o uid=1000 -t iso9660 -o loop /home/diego/tmp/Dead\ Space\ 2/flt-ds2a.iso /mnt I believe I forgot to add the -o loop option. Sorry.