From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 24 19:00:49 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 3AA4D16A492 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F2244126 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:31:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2OIUhrW090640 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:31:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <44243AC8.5080904@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:30:32 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 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 19:00:49 -0000 Good day, 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....) 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). Can anyone confirm my hunch? And, even better, have you got a surefire way to get "my_very_important.bkf" off the disk? ;) Thank you very much, Kevin Kinsey -- It's not whether you win or lose but how you played the game. -- Grantland Rice