Linux and HPFS filenames 3001
Then do it in batches. For instance, if you want to move 1GB of files but only have 250MB of free space, do it in four batches of 250MB each.
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:54:24 GMT, Mark Healey staggered into the Black Sun and said: "A lot" is 2 words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you? For maximum cross-filesystem and cross-platform combatability...
If this is a dual-boot configuration, and if you're using ext2fs or ext3fs on Linux, you might be able to get it to work by using an OS-2 ext2fs driver and using the WPS to drag-and-drop the files. I can't promise this would work, though; the WPS might just drop the data in the .LONGNAME EA. You might also need to muck with tune2fs to downgrade your ext2fs features to something that OS-2 can manage.
If this is two different computers, a conceptually similar option would be to use Samba to make a Linux directory available to OS-2 and use WPS to copy the files. Again, I can't promise that the WPS would use the Linux-Samba long filenames correctly.
Another option would be to write a script in Linux to copy them and check the .LONGNAME EA. I don't know how difficult it would be to write such a script, though; I've never tried reading HPFS EAs from a Linux script.
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