Sorry I haven't got back around to replying to the helpful advice on
this topic.
(Volker)
Find out whether the problem is with reading the original or
writing the
copy. cat originalfile | wc -c will tell.
This worked fine.
To find out whether there is a write limit at 2GB, use
dd bs=1M
On Sun 12 Aug 2012 21:50:50 NZST +1200, Roger Searle wrote:
There was an earlier mention of the file being a truecrypt container
- is it somehow related to that, and for some reason rsync coped
while cp did not?
This is all pointless shooting around in the dark. And totally
irrelevant. Any
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 08/11/2012 12:35 PM:
Just to add a tailender, FWIW these utility versions will copy a 4.7G
file to an ntfs disc on a usb string perfectly.
$ uname -a
Linux sabayon 3.4.0-sabayon #1 SMP Wed Jul 18 23:06:40 UTC 2012 i686
Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
On Sun 12 Aug 2012 13:57:46 NZST +1200, C. Falconer wrote:
Could the problem be related to 64 bit at all? I haven't got a
drive handy to test.
No, unless your specific version is dodgy. My tests were all on 64 bit.
Besides, why should fuse ntfs-3g be 64bit critical?
Volker
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Volker
Just to add a tailender, FWIW these utility versions will copy a 4.7G file
to an ntfs disc on a usb string perfectly.
$ uname -a
Linux sabayon 3.4.0-sabayon #1 SMP Wed Jul 18 23:06:40 UTC 2012 i686
Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
$ dd --version
dd (coreutils) 8.16
On 10 August 2012 11:45, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to copy an 18GB file from my linux partition (ext3) to an
external hard drive that is NTFS formatted (gets used mostly by windows
machines hence ntfs) which has 40GB free space.
No matter what I've tried the
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formatted usb drive?
On 10 August 2012 11:45, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz
wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to copy an 18GB file from my linux partition
(ext3
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
thanks for the suggestions.
The filesystem on the usb hard drive does not have a 2GB limit - it
already has several backup image files well over 100GB each.
I tried the system rescue cd, it gave a similar error of cp: failed to
extend
On 10 August 2012 15:25, Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
thanks for the suggestions.
The filesystem on the usb hard drive does not have a 2GB limit - it
already has several backup image files well over 100GB each.
I tried the
Thanks Chris, I booted to windows and ran chkdsk - it did not find any
errors, so I'm guessing that is not corrupt, especially since the
problem is exhibited using two different drives.
-Bryce
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