From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 24 20:26:35 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 627CD16A429 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:26:35 +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 004A643D48 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:26:34 +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 k2OKPRZG091315; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:25:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <442455AC.9050300@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:25:16 -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: Kris Kennaway References: <44243AC8.5080904@daleco.biz> <20060324191903.GA27005@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060324191903.GA27005@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 20:26:35 -0000 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