On Sun, 22 May 2005, Marty wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 16:43:49 -0400 > From: Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ... > Resent-Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 15:43:57 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am in a bit of weird situation. I am running a dual boot system. I > > need to be able to let someone I know but lives far be able to upload > > 30 GB or so of data to my PC or download stuff off of it. I also need > > to be able to get it all to the windows side. Yeah, I know you don't > > like win, but it is a must in this situation. > > > > I also need a good solution (not just a quick fix) as I might have to > > get those 30 GB back and forth to my friend quite a few times. > > > > I thought about ftp. I could run an ftp server on my debian side (I > > chose to stick with linux on this part as it is way more secure). I > > started looking at vsftpd, but I just thought about something. The only > > way I can share files between the OSs is through FAT32 disks. But those > > only support files up to 4GB. So I'm in trouble. > > > > Any thoughts? Any docs talking about a similar issue? Any sites you > > would know that can help me? > > I would suggest rsync. FTP could be a nightmare for that much data. > (I've learned that the hard way.) > > Most likely you would want to make each side an rsync server for the > other side, which can be securely done, although that will require > some kind of secure tunnelling if data confidentiality is an issue > (also no problem with rsync). > > As for getting the data on your windows side, this is decided by what > kind of filesystem your data need. To my knowledge hard links (and > other UNIX filesystem features and not available in that world, which > is some instances make it literally impossible to use MS-type filesystems. > This is probably your prior issue. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
go for the solution with rsync, much better than ftp, and the size of the fat drive is no prob. don't seams to be limited to 4G. mad:~# mkdir /mnt/hda1 mad:~# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1/ mad:~# du -sh /mnt/hda1/ 3.8G /mnt/hda1/ mad:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 5.3G 1.7G 3.4G 33% / tmpfs 122M 0 122M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda8 12G 511M 11G 5% /home /dev/hda1 15G 3.8G 11G 26% /mnt/hda1 mad:~# /ernst-magne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
