dumping large partition to USB drive fails

[Norberto Meijome]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:09:48 +0200
Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote:
> > It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output.
> > 
> > I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre,
> > too.  I never had problems with dump/restore.
> > 
> > My disk also failed recently with very similer messages.
> > 
> 
> The weird thing is, when I use the USB disk without encryption, it works
> fine.

what happens if you dump your GELI partition first, and then the others?

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