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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Ext3 to NTFS - transfering data Post 302466848 by huntreilly25 on Wednesday 27th of October 2010 01:24:59 PM
Old 10-27-2010
Ext3 to NTFS - transfering data

Alright so here is my problem:
I have an ext3 external hard drive with about 270gb of data that needs to be copied/transferred to a NTFS drive.
The NTFS drive has data currently on it...which obviously needs to stay intact.
My supervisor mentioned that this problem could be a little tricky so I just have a few things i'm wondering to see if I can find the right direction to go.
I'm assuming that simply mounting the NTFS drive and moving the files to the corresponding /mnt drive would serve no purpose...or would possibly not be allowed?
Should I be thinking about creating an ext3 partition on the NTFS drive to copy my data to?
based on what i've been doing recently I am assuming that my supervisor wants me to use this method:
gather the files in the ext3 drive with tar, compress those files using gzip, then move the files to the NTFS drive, uncompress, and extract.
just as a quick example i am assuming that this:
Code:
tar cf - /dev/sdb1/scott | tar -C /dev/sdc1/ -xf -

or something similar would not work, otherwise my supervisor would not have said this was tricky. (Note: sdb1 is the ext3 drive and sdc1 is the NTFS drive)

plus, since my supervisor recently had me learning about mount and fdisk I am guessing that I may be needing to use these commands. I'm just not exactly sure what is possible and what is not allowed in this case(as far as Linux goes)
 

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HD(4)							     Linux Programmer's Manual							     HD(4)

NAME
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices DESCRIPTION
The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and the slave hdd. General IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the partition on that physical drive. The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in the order the partitions are discovered, and only non-empty, non-extended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the four partitions described in the MBR (the `primary' partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended. Thus, the first logi- cal partition will be hdX5. Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported. You can have at most 63 partitions on an IDE disk. For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS `primary' partition on the second one. They are typically created by: mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0 mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1 mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2 ... mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8 mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64 mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65 mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66 ... mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72 chown root:disk /dev/hd* FILES
/dev/hd* SEE ALSO
mknod(1), chown(1), mount(8), sd(4) Linux 1992-12-17 HD(4)
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