A friend of mine has created a 7.75 GB .mpeg file.
He wishes to transfer it to another machine.
We failed to copy it to another hard disk or another partition on the
same hdd.
Windows XP says that there is not enough space on the hdd (even though
the target partition has more than enough 20 GB free space).
I booted the machine with Konppix 4 and mounted the partitions and tried
to copy the file. Copying process did start but stopped after it had
copied about 53% of the file saying that maximum file limit has been
reached.
Now I am going to dd the entire partition (20 GB) onto another hdd.
The m/c is an AMD64 3000+ on an RS232 motherboard with 1 GB of RAM. How
much time is expected to be taken by the process?
Any guesses?
It depends on the filesystem. For example file size limitation for an ext2
filesystem (with 1kb block) it is 2GB. I guess it is same for ext3 also.
Where do you have the mpeg file now and where do you want to transfer it?
-logu
The 7.75 GB mpeg file is on an NTFS partition. I need to transfer it to
another hdd which has multiple partitions. A partition of 20 Gb can be
spared on the target hdd. One should be able to access it through WinXp.
You may have to make that 20GB partition as type NTFS and create an ntfs
filesystem (I dont know of utilities to create ntfs filesystem. But you can
create it under xp) and copy the files to it. Your kernel or the kernel
module must have the ntfs write support.
We do have a dvd writer with capability to write a dual layer dvd.
Will it be possible to transfer the file onto a dual layer dvd? Should I
try that?
I guess there wont be any problem to write to a DVD.
As you mentioned earliear dd should work. But make sure it does not meddle
with the partion boudaries. Partion in the second hardisk should be simillar
to source.
Thanks
-logu
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