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Date:      Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:14:38 +0100
From:      Jeronimo Calvo <jeronimocalvop@googlemail.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g?
Message-ID:  <beaf3aa50909290114m16931397h4515eacbdd35627f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090928201631.GA17808@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <beaf3aa50909280906ibc2aea0yeacb3a9c17b1cfe0@mail.gmail.com> <20090928201631.GA17808@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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great I will do a massive Cp as both fs are mounted under BSD, (ntfs
just with read access)...

should you suggest guy to do a normal

#cp /media/DATAWIN /media/UFShd

as there is no any soft and hard links on this partition... will be fine?

Thanks!

2009/9/28 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 05:06:34PM +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Scenario: 3 hds, 1 of them with a NTFS partition and loads of media on
>> it, I was thinking to activate ntfs3g under Freebsd 7.2 STABLE, but
>> since Im having this partition since a while... and i will no need to
>> have it on this FS, what you recommed for moving this partition into
>> ufs format... to make it 100% reliable? what steps will you do?
>
> I would suggest you create the UFS filesystem, then tar up the files
> in the NTFS partition that you want to move and then untar that
> on the FreeBSD UFS (or UFS2) filesystem. =A0 =A0You might have to
> install a tar utility on the MS system.
>
> You can also just mount the NTFS file system on FreeBSD and then
> do a massive copy of the files you want in to the UFS[2] filesystem.
> In both the case of doing a tar or a mass copy (cp) wildcards are good.
>
> Hopefully you have the files on the NTFS organized reasonably
> in directories. =A0 =A0If you don't and they are interspersed with
> lots of files you do not want to copy, then it can get tedious
> but you can still do it. =A0It will just need much more manual
> attention.
>
> ////jerry
>
>
>>
>> BR!
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