Copying files to sata drive using linux?

[NaOH]

"sudo cp -r directy1 directory2" isn't working. Is it because my sata drive is formatted to ntfs?

 

[Forsythe]

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
"sudo cp -r directy1 directory2" isn't working. Is it because my sata drive is formatted to ntfs?

Heh, yes.

Unless you have it mounted and installed the right libraries you're just making people laugh 🙂

And NTFS write support for Linux is still a bit funky these days. I wouldn't do it.
Well, you can do it if you're copying, but it might not work 100%. I don't know the succes rate, but the rumor is it's buggy.

 

[Forsythe]

What the hell, instead of being grumpy, i might aswell help you 🙂

Link

This adds pretty good support, and tells you if it fails. So it sounds rather safe regarding the corruption of data.

Depending on the dist you use it'll be easy or hard.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
"sudo cp -r directy1 directory2" isn't working. Is it because my sata drive is formatted to ntfs?

I'm confused. You're at step 3, but first need to identify the situation.

So you want to copy a directory. What's the error message? Where are you trying to copy to? Where are you copying from? Are you running in a livecd? Be as specific as possible.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
"sudo cp -r directy1 directory2" isn't working. Is it because my sata drive is formatted to ntfs?

I'm confused. You're at step 3, but first need to identify the situation.

So you want to copy a directory. What's the error message? Where are you trying to copy to? Where are you copying from? Are you running in a livecd? Be as specific as possible.

Read minds Linux dweeb.


:beer:😉