From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 29 14:17:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E97106566B for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:17:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AC08FC19 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n8TEH371022216; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:17:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id n8TEH3Bi022215; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:17:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:17:03 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Jeronimo Calvo Message-ID: <20090929141703.GB22125@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20090928201631.GA17808@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Jerry McAllister , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:17:04 -0000 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:14:38AM +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > 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? > Are their subdirectories that need copying too. If so, use the -R flag. You might want to do cp /media/DATAWIN/* /media/UFShd/. ////jerry > Thanks! > > 2009/9/28 Jerry McAllister : > > 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.    You 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.    If 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.  It will just need much more manual > > attention. > > > > ////jerry > > > > > >> > >> BR! > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >