moving large directories over to linux from windows
 

I've already mounted the windows computer drive /mnt/backup and I want to move this to my home directory in linux. But if I try it on the command line it says "Argument list to long"

What's the best way to move my files over?

thanks

What command are you using? Does "mv *.* /wherever" work? Have you tried using rsync?

both the mv command and rsync command give me "argument list to long" am I missing an option?...because I run both without any.

What's the full command you are issuing? Do you have full rights to both directories (the from and to directories)?

sudo mv /mnt/backup/*.* /home/

Now the backup folder is on a windows machine with an ntfs file system. I could repartition the drive with a fat32 if that would help.

Do you have ntfs support compiled in the kernel? That could be why you are getting the error message.

I don't think I have ntfs support, but I labeled it as smbfs in fstab. It works and I can see the files, and I can copy one file. Just not all 4000+ at once. I'm going to install ntfs and see if that doesn't help any.

This site may be of help

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=585

I used this way and i have no problems getting stuff of my ntfs XP drives