[NTLUG:Discuss] TAR and 4 gigabyte AVI file

[Robert Pearson]

On 1/6/07, Lenrek Xunil <lenrek.xunil at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry Michael, that option is not always available.
> > The "First thing to do" is to learn how to deal with such nastiness
> > especially if one has to deal with Windoze (l)users.  :-)
>
>
> I'm going to have to agree.  You really shouldn't be renaming someone else's
> files.
>
> Lenrek's tar command above needs fixing in a couple of ways:
> >
> > 1) tar cfvz --exclude-from="SUMMER '03 Day 4.avi" SUMMER '03 Day 4.avi
> >
> >   Should be more like
> >
> >    tar cfvz --exclude-from="SUMMER '03 Day 4.avi" somefilename.tar "SUMMER
> > '03 Day 4.avi"
>
>
> ooops.... my brain wasn't working when I wrote that... the actual command I
> tried was
>
> tar cfvz --exclude-from="SUMMER '03 Day 4.avi" joes_hd.tar.gz mount_point/
>
> Also, as for the other comment, I'm no longer married.  But it's funny you
> mention, because I have suspicions that my business partner has
> hypnotized<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Jeffries>my girlfriend.
>
> I'm off to download Knoppixxx.... I had started yesterday but had to
> discontinue to do something else...


Knoppix is always good to have for many reasons.

You can just add ntfs-3g to your existing distro.
In Fedora.. just do a:
# yum install ntfs-3g

There are binaries for Gentoo, Slackware and Ubuntu as well.
See:
<<http://www.ntfs-3g.org/>>

"ntfs-3g
Linux NTFS userspace driver
The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation
Linux NTFS driver. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, excluding
access to encrypted files, writing compressed files, changing file
ownership, access right.

Technically it's based on and a major improvement to the third
generation Linux NTFS driver, ntfsmount. The improvements include
functionality, quality and performance enhancements.

ntfs-3g features are being merged to ntfsmount. In the meanwhile,
ntfs-3g is currently the only free, as in either speech or beer, NTFS
driver for Linux that supports unlimited file creation and deletion.
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfs-3g-download.html"