Large File Copy

[Daniel L. Miller]

As usual, I found something to frustrate me again in my constant pursuit 
of Linux paradise.

I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion.  I have installed 
this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition.

No prob.

Next, I shared the mounted partition via Samba 3.

No prob.

From my new wonderful soon to be master server, I have mounted the 
Samba share.

Still no prob.

I am now trying to copy all the junk from that Samba mounted NTFS drive 
to my new ReiserFS drive.  For reasonable size files it works just fine. 
 But I have quite a few files that are well over 300k - and copy 
commands keep crashing.

Since my golden PC is using KDE, I tried using Konqueror to do the file 
copies.  Apparently Konqueror posseses some type of copy-resume, so when 
it fails I can re-try the file copy, tell it to overwrite, and the copy 
continues from there.  But there's GOTTA be a better way.

I thought I'd try ftp.  So I installed vsftpd - no probs after I figured 
out the directory published via ftp is done by the user home directory - 
and tried to access the NTFS mount.

This failed.

So, I pointed the ftp server at my root directory <gasp> and tried an 
ftp client to change into the directory where the NTFS partition was 
mounted.

No go.

So, please, SOME IDEAS WOULD BE APPRECIATED!!!!  Why can't vsftpd access 
my NTFS directory - and why do my file copies keep bombing - and how can 
I achieve my main goal - which is to get these files off the old drive!

BTW - before you ask, for various hardware reasons I can't install the 
NTFS drive in my primary PC.  Of course, I SHOULDN'T need too . . . .

Daniel

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