Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:25:16 -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: <442455AC.9050300@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: >On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:30:32PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > >>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? >> >> > >I think there are PRs about this. > > I don't find many, but, I've not spent too much time on the search page. Most applicable one I see was from 2004, about 5.2 days. I would assume that any changes would reflect in 6.0. Of course, if I really *wanted* to know, I could check the cvsweb, eh? >>And, even better, have you got a surefire way >>to get "my_very_important.bkf" off the disk? ;) >> >> > >/usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs/ ? > >Kris > > Thank you very much for your reply. I'm hopeful that this will help! Kevin Kinsey -- Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb
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