From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 24 19:19:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0664F16A41F for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:19:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDB943D45 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:19:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA7F1A4EC9; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:19:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C3CC05157B; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:19:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:19:03 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kevin Kinsey Message-ID: <20060324191903.GA27005@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44243AC8.5080904@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44243AC8.5080904@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_ntfs(8) and filesize ... 2GB limit? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:19:05 -0000 --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--