mount_ntfs(8) and filesize ... 2GB limit?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Mar 24 19:19:05 UTC 2006


On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:30:32PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> I'm quite *stuck* attempting to read a 14GB file from
> an NTFS volume.  Obviously, an NTFS-based machine
> would be great, but they aren't playing nice, and I'm
> afraid my Winfoo isn't up to snuff (and I was up most
> of the night with it, so my RTFM is suffering, too....)
> 
> FreeBSD mounts and reads both partitions on the
> drive, but when I attempt to read the large file,
> every operation seems to truncate the file at about
> 2 GB.  Since I've tried cp(1), dd(1), tar(1), cpio(1),
> FTP, and SMBFS, (plus Freesbie, Knoppix, and NTFS
> for Win98) I'm starting to think that it's the underlying
> FreeBSD NTFS layer that's at issue (in the FreeBSD
> portions of the problem, I mean).
> 
> Can anyone confirm my hunch?

I think there are PRs about this.

> And, even better, have you got a surefire way
> to get "my_very_important.bkf" off the disk?  ;)

/usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs/ ?

Kris
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