On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:30:32PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Good day, > > I'm quite *stuck* attempting to read a 14GB file from > an NTFS volume. Obviously, an NTFS-based machine > would be great, but they aren't playing nice, and I'm > afraid my Winfoo isn't up to snuff (and I was up most > of the night with it, so my RTFM is suffering, too....) > > FreeBSD mounts and reads both partitions on the > drive, but when I attempt to read the large file, > every operation seems to truncate the file at about > 2 GB. Since I've tried cp(1), dd(1), tar(1), cpio(1), > FTP, and SMBFS, (plus Freesbie, Knoppix, and NTFS > for Win98) I'm starting to think that it's the underlying > FreeBSD NTFS layer that's at issue (in the FreeBSD > portions of the problem, I mean). > > Can anyone confirm my hunch?
I think there are PRs about this. > And, even better, have you got a surefire way > to get "my_very_important.bkf" off the disk? ;) /usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs/ ? Kris
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