On Sun, 6 May 2007, Christopher Smith wrote:
> I found this problem on the version of ntfs-3g found on the Trinity
> Rescue Kit and also on the latest release of ntfs-3g for Gentoo. I use
> ntfs-3g when recovering data from dying hard drives and when I am
> copying from an NTFS partition to another NTFS partition using globs (eg
> "cp * /Documents and Settings/User/Desktop/Backup/") the disk I am
> copying to always fills up entirely even when I was copying the contents
> of a 160GB hard drive to a 320GB (empty) hard drive. I experienced this
> on two different machines, one was using TRK and the other was Gentoo.
> I am not sure that this is definitely a globbing issue or not but it is
> the only time I can remember it happening. It seems like it loops
> through the glob and just starts copying again after it finishes.
I think you have transparently compressed and/or sparse files. Typically
there are many on NTFS volumes.
You can compare the two directories for instance by
diff -r dir1 dir2
Szaka
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