I haven't followed this entire thread, but if you are bumping into a 2 gig limit, then it sounds like you are running fat16 and not ntfs. IF you are using fat16, then you need to convert the drive to NTFS and I believe that should solve it. I don't think this is a limitation of the old NTFS even. Just a thought.
On Friday 29 November 2002 08:22 am, Ken Walker wrote: > >I am sure that you have your reasons for coping "to" an NT machine. Not > >being an "NT" guru, I would have to ask "Must the transfer be done in one > >chunk"? You did not say where the 8 gigs to be transferred resides. Having > >knowledge of the origin of the transfer may help in the answer, afterall, > > we > > >are not mindreaders, are we?! > > I have a LM8.1 samba server being used by a series of cad classes ( i work > at a university). > > In two days they created 5.8Gig of graphics files. > > The SCSI disk there all on is almost full, say 200Mb left. I've repeatedly > asked them to delete any work / scans they no longer want. > > Have they listned,,,,,no. > > normally the classes don't go over 1G per class. But for some amazing > reason they've all been told to produce A2 at 300dpi, one girl had 67 > layers in Photoshop, with a single line on most of them. Derrrrrrr ( I > wouldn't mind but there's nowhere for them to print A2's ) > > > > I'm in the process of building a dual pII 333 machine with 6 disk raid 5, > dat drive, cd burner. > > But want to give it a good thrashing before i commit it to its purpose ( > never done a software raid yet ) > > The NT is really my peace of mind just in case something nasty happens. > > Based on the saying 'Given enough time, everything possible WILL happen.' > > The NT is a raid 5, with a 20/40 dat drive. > > doing a copy of all the contents works, but all permissions / groups > /owners are lost, if i do a cp -a. I get 'permission denied'. > > I have read somewhere that it is possible to tar to another machines dat > drive using something like > > tar -cvf //samba/dev/nst0 * > > but i couldn't get it to work, and as far as i know you can't share a > non-block device across the network. > > I even tried before piping it through gzip, but it still stopped at the > magic 2G. > > So really i'm buggered :o) > > Mr Smiley ( still smiling, sort of )
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