what is the best way to copy all data from NTFS disk to ext3 disk?
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From: Nasser M. Abbasi on 25 May 2010 00:31 Hello; I am having hard time finding the best way to do this: I mount my NTFS disk as read only. no problem, have a large ext3 disk mounted also. I want to copy all my data from the NTFS disk over to ext3, so I can use it easier on Linux. Then I simply do cp /my_linux_disk_root cp -R /windows_disk . The copy starts OK, but the problem is that some files, during the copy process, generate this error from cp Value too large for defined data type When I look at some of the files which generated this error, they are small in size. so it is not 16 GB limit on file size. It could be a 255 bytes limit on a path name? some of the files are very deep in my NTFS tree. I was using debian (latest and greatest ISO image as of last night) so I am thinking there should be a more reliable way to copy all of the data from NTFS to Linux disk? my Linux desktop crashed also during the cp, I am not sure if it is due to the cp itself or not. very disappointed with this. but this is for another day. Should I try the "dd" command? should I use tar or something else? the NTFS disk is very large, over 600 GB, and I want to move all the data to Linux disk (1 terabyte empty disk). Should I try something other than ext3? do I need to get a version of cp which supports very long file/path names? how? thanks --Nasser |