Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:19:03 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_ntfs(8) and filesize ... 2GB limit? Message-ID: <20060324191903.GA27005@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <44243AC8.5080904@daleco.biz> References: <44243AC8.5080904@daleco.biz>
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--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:30:32PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Good day, >=20 > 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....) >=20 > 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). >=20 > 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 --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEJEYmWry0BWjoQKURAgKgAJoDMnhnj9B+MqN7g8M7xV3D+NInQACgwhnm rnkHSkr+GnavQfnlP4FfgC4= =qLhx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy--
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