Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:40:09 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_ntfs(8) and filesize ... 2GB limit? Message-ID: <44248359.6040400@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20060324191903.GA27005@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44243AC8.5080904@daleco.biz> <20060324191903.GA27005@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >>And, even better, have you got a surefire way >>to get "my_very_important.bkf" off the disk? ;) >> >> > >/usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs/ ? > >Kris > > Kris, thanks *very much*. Where can I send $beverage? For the archives: 1. Install port mentioned above. 2. ntfscat -fv /dev/ad3s2 important.bkf > /usr/recovered.bkf 3. restore as per Windows SOP. So, "ntfscat" is able to handle large file operations (>2GB) in FreeBSD, operations that seem to fail with mount_ntfs and standard 'Nix tools (cat, cp, cpio, tar, dd, etc). Important: I've not yet verified that the disk is still readable by Windows, but since the data's off, I'm not sure I care, and Windows wasn't seeing it properly anyway. A reformat should do the trick. YMMV. Kevin Kinsey -- What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertold Brecht
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