Re: Large File Copy

["Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com>]

Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700:
>
> > I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion.  I have installed 
> > this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition.
>
>  
> From this sentence, I believe that you are mounting an NTFS partition on your
> Linux box, and are trying to get your data off of it that way.
>
> This probably won't work; the NTFS driver in kernel 2.4 is experimental, and
> for a reason; it really isn't stable.
I thought the "old" NTFS driver in the 2.4 for read-only access was 
reliable.  Or do I need to try to install the "new" NTFS driver.
> > I am now trying to copy all the junk from that Samba mounted NTFS drive 
> > to my new ReiserFS drive.  For reasonable size files it works just fine. 
> > But I have quite a few files that are well over 300k - and copy 
> > commands keep crashing.
>
>  
> Yep; I bet the filesystem driver is returning an error to your cp command.
>
> The only way I know of to reliably get data off of an NTFS partition for a home
> user is to share that partition using Windows NT/2k/XP, and then use smbclient.
> smbclient has a tar option that might be handy.
Worst case, I may pursue that.  But I REALLY don't want to - there 
should be an easy, simple, reliable Debian Linux solution - right?

Daniel