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:
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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