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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2004-06-22 21:30:55
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Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2630929 By: szaka 39 MB isn't too much, indeed. However the compressed metadata images are usually 0.5-5 MB. Altough I guess yours could be even one order larger: highly fragmented MFT often means once you had really a lot of files and close to full partition. The problem is that, the metadata image can't be compressed on-the-fly. There are still several possible solution: 1) if you have lots of RAM (at least 256MB but more is better of course) then ntfsclone --metadata ... to the / filesystem (RAM basically) then tar cjS ... pack it. However probably you will get out of memory at some point. But if it worked and the size is less then 39MB then you could save it or copy to somewhere through network. 2) if network works and you have a Linux around then NFS export a directory read-write and mount that from the rescue cd and ntfslone there. Windows as remote box is not ok because unlike Linux, it would need 80 GB space for this action (Linux SMB filesystems don't support automatic or any other way to create sparse files and Windows NTFS needs to be told about this explicitely). 3) we could save the needed info into the NTFS partition itself by a suitable modified ntfsclone and using the stable, open source NTFS driver (it supports only file overwrite but that would be enough). 4) Maybe by using some external device temporarily? What rescue cd do you have? ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=44085 |
