On Fri 10 Aug 2012 12:46:54 NZST +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: > 2GB is probably the size limit for files on your Windows file system.
For NTFS? I so do not think so. For this fat mental seizure you'd be right though. I have successfully copied 40GB files around on NTFS using openSUSE 12.1 without any trouble at all. The files were generated with ntfsclone. It's the perfect image backup for NTFS without having to back up unused diskspace as with dd. Even better if you manage to copy sparse files, that allows you to loop-mount the backup file. Not too much of a problem, the ntfsclone help and manpage is very very good. Bruce, check a few things: ext4 is not compatible with ext3! If you start booting live CDs that are not properly ext4 capable expect problems. ext2 and ext3 are interchangeable. ext4 is not. (This is also the reason why ext4 is reasonably performant compared with reiserfs, as opposed to ext3 which isn't.) Find out whether the problem is with reading the original or writing the copy. cat originalfile | wc -c will tell. To find out whether there is a write limit at 2GB, use dd bs=1M count=2500 </dev/zero >file-on-ntfs Linux ntfs-3g has problems with corrupted ntfs. Run a proper filesystem check, and you'll have to do that on doze. Alternatively, mkfs -t ntfs should work... ntfs-3g I don't think handles any ntfs encryption. Microsoft seems to run that at the file level though, no idea what happens with directories but if that's the problem I'd expect some weird errors. Good luck, it should just work, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
