Re: Copying and taring large amounts of data
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:47:44PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> I need to move large amounts of data from one disk to another and then
> tar it up for back up purposes. I have tried cp and mv, but both take
> very large amounts of time with many ide resets and faults. The amount
> of data I am trying to copy is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15
> gigs. It is going from a fat32 fs to an ext2 fs. I also notice that
...
Many utilities still have 2GB file size limitation hidden somewhere,
even though kernel should be able to handle large files.
So just do not listen to other posts suggesting "tar ..." or similar.
I would suggest write a small shell script to copy each small file 1-by-1.
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