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 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. > So, please, SOME IDEAS WOULD BE APPRECIATED!!!! Why can't vsftpd access > my NTFS directory - and why do my file copies keep bombing - and how can > I achieve my main goal - which is to get these files off the old drive! Hope this helps, M
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