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)
This would work as it is, so long you have additional spaces in your NTFS drive to accomodate ext3 drives data; assuming you have this, just try the sequence of commands only (ofcourse, its trickey but not that much you are assuming -you will have the correct data in your NTFS drive :
Your data will be properly copied into the ext3_data directory under the ntfs drive; ofcourse the conversion of data format from ext3 to ntfs would be handled by the corresponding filesystems kernel modules. What you'd, get at the end, -your pure data uncorrupted
You may also chose to copy of the entire ext3 disk image onto your ntfs drive too, use the following:
Here with the count flag takes an argument as a number you get as a divide the total ext3 drive's capacity to 512.
At the end, what you get is not the pure data rather its a disk copy as a backup onto your ntfs drive, this disk image is a file which would be saved as an ntfs file over the ntfs drive. In this case, to get your data, you need to do the following:
Here you can access your data inside the /mnt/ext directory.
Cheers!!!
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