Re: can i use external hard drive on linux?

From	Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: can i use external hard drive on linux?
Date	2014-08-14 02:49 +0000
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On 2014-08-13, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:04:03 +0000 (UTC) Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>> 
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> > On 13/08/14 16:28, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> > > In article <lsffj5$7nl$2@news.albasani.net>,
>> > > The Natural Philosopher  <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> > > ...
>> > >> If its to copy to and from windows no point in having it able to accept
>> > >> filenames that windows cannot.
>> > >
>> > > Well, OP said his immediate goal was to use the drive to move files from
>> > > Linux System A to Linux System B - that is, neither to nor from Windows.
>> > >
>> > > ...
>> > >
>> > > P.S.  The best advice given so far in this thread is to try to use the
>> > > network to move the files instead of using the hard drive.
>> 
>> > Certainly works for me. Even only 100Mbps is adequate for quite a lot of 
>> > data...
>> 
>> Depending upon the distribution of file sizes, his limitation may end
>> up being disk seek speed rather than raw network bandwidth.  Moving
>> lots of 4k and under files will take more time (and not saturate the
>> network) than moving a bunch of 4GB video files over.
>> 
>> Plus, given linux<->linux, he can just run rsync and let it take care
>> of everything.
>
> And/or use ssh+tar:
>
> tar xjvf - -C sourcedir <files> | ssh destmachine tar xjvf - -C destdir

If things don't go well with that pipeline, drop the 'v' in the
option list.  Don't know for sure about current GNU tar, but I
have seen tar versions that would intermingle the file names from
'-v' and the data stream, which would cause things to go sour on
the receiving end.

HTH

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

Thread

can i use external hard drive on linux? newbie2 <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-12 09:11 -0700
  Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-12 16:23 +0000
  Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-12 11:45 -0500
  Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? A <a@a.com> - 2014-08-12 18:55 +0200
  Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Andreas Kohlbach <aug14.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-12 16:20 -0400
    Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-12 21:40 +0100
      Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Andreas Kohlbach <aug14.8.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-13 19:06 -0400
  Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-12 21:39 +0100
  Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> - 2014-08-12 22:50 +0200
  Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-08-12 23:51 +0000
    Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-08-13 00:56 +0000
      Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-08-13 22:19 +0000
    Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-08-13 02:50 +0000
  Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2014-08-12 23:13 +0000
    Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-13 11:44 +0100
      Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-08-13 15:28 +0000
        Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-13 16:31 +0100
          Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-08-13 15:42 +0000
            Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-13 20:06 +0100
              Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-08-13 19:20 +0000
          Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-13 16:04 +0000
            Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-13 11:18 -0500
              Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-13 16:28 +0000
              Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-08-14 02:49 +0000
        Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-13 10:52 -0500
          Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2014-08-13 20:50 +0000
          Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2014-08-17 23:10 +0000

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