Hello all, I am looking for a way to move a massive amount of data from an NTFS filesystem to an ext3 filesystem in order to move a samba box in to replace a win2K server. If anyone has any ideas or pointers, or links to follow, I would appreciate it. This is the first step, after this I get to figure out how to incorporate this into an EMC SAN. Whoopeee!!!! Thanks, Wade Winright "Open the pod bay doors HAL!!!" -Arthur C. Clarke -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 11:23, Wade Winright wrote:> Hello all, > I am looking for a way to move a massive amount of data from an NTFS > filesystem to an ext3 filesystem in order to move a samba box in to replace > a win2K server. If anyone has any ideas or pointers, or links to follow, I > would appreciate it. This is the first step, after this I get to figure out > how to incorporate this into an EMC SAN. Whoopeee!!!! > Thanks,If you are transfering from one disk to another within the same box, and if you have the experimental NTFS support compiled in your kernel (I'm assuming that your new system is Linux), you should be able to mount the drive *read-only* then "cp -R" your files from the ntfs partition to your new ext3 partition. Kohei
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Wade Winright wrote:> Hello all, I am looking for a way to move a massive amount of data > from an NTFS filesystem to an ext3 filesystem in order to move a samba > box in to replace a win2K server. If anyone has any ideas or pointers, > or links to follow, I would appreciate it. This is the first step, > after this I get to figure out how to incorporate this into an EMC > SAN. Whoopeee!!!! Thanks,If it were me, I would compile Samba --with-acl-support (after incorporating the ext3 posix acl patches of course). Then I would use something like scope.exe (or win2k's xcopy.exe) to copy the files and maintain the ACLs. chau, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--