Jean-Pierre André schrieb: > Hi Tomasz > > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> I was wondering if ntfs-3g handles all Windows ACLs, permissions etc. >> attributes files written on a NTFS can have. >> > > The advanced ntfs-3g provides support for Windows ACLs, > file attributes and reparse data : see > http://pagesperso-orange.fr/b.andre/advanced-ntfs-3g.html > >> I have a 50 GB NTFS filesystem (Windows running in a virtual machine) >> which I wanted to copy over a rather slow internet link - if I use a >> dd-like program, it will take me at least a week to copy data. >> >> Files on this filesystem take less than 10 GB space, so it would be >> ideal if I could just mount the local NTFS filesystem, mount the >> remote NTFS filesystem (via iSCSI), copy files, done. I'm concerned >> about the state of Windows ACLs, permissions, attributes etc. after >> such operation though. >> >> Is it possible with ntfs-3g? >> > > Yes it is mostly possible, but not so easy. See the following > threads on the project forum : > http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewtopic.php?t=1035 > http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewtopic.php?t=1045 > > You will however lose some information, such as the condensed > file names (MSDOS 8+3 format). > > You should also check what ntfsclone can do, but I guess > you want to merge the files into an existing file system.
It would be a new, empty filesystem, formatted from the "source" Windows if needed - so not really merging. Thanks for the links. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
