NTFS conversion?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Wade Winright wrote:

> Hello all, I am looking for a way to move a massive amount of data
> from an NTFS filesystem to an ext3 filesystem in order to move a samba
> box in to replace a win2K server. If anyone has any ideas or pointers,
> or links to follow, I would appreciate it. This is the first step,
> after this I get to figure out how to incorporate this into an EMC
> SAN. Whoopeee!!!! Thanks,

If it were me, I would compile Samba --with-acl-support (after
incorporating the ext3 posix acl patches of course).  Then I would use
something like scope.exe (or win2k's xcopy.exe) to copy the files and
maintain the ACLs.








chau, jerry
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