cp only copies directories and not files

[GriFF3n]

I am trying to copy the files from my WHS disk to my Ubuntu Server disk. I have the windows disk mounted at /media/WINDOWS and I want to transfer to /storage so I ran;

sudo cp -r /media/WINDOWS /storage

It takes about 4-5 seconds and is complete, but there is about 500 GB worth of data there so I know it didn't really copy everything over. When I look at the files in console it shows them, but when I look at the /storage through SAMBA on my Windows machine, it only shows the directories. Am I doing something wrong with the 'cp' command? Is there a better way to do this?

[SeijiSensei]

Is there a better way to do this?

Use rsync. ('sudo apt-get install rsync' if it isn't already there.).

rsync -av /path/to/directory /target

will copy everything in the source to the target. Next time you run this it will copy only those files that have changed since the last snapshot.

[GriFF3n]

Use rsync. ('sudo apt-get install rsync' if it isn't already there.).

rsync -av /path/to/directory /target

will copy everything in the source to the target. Next time you run this it will copy only those files that have changed since the last snapshot.

Yea thats what I was thinking of doing. It just throws me off that 'cp' only copied directories and not files.

[GriFF3n]

rsync does the same thing, makes directories but doesn't copy files. Used the same syntacs as described and no go.

I get;

unsupported reparse point

for all the files.

[CharlesA]

Try this:

sudo rsync -ai /media/WINDOWS/* /storage/

[GriFF3n]

Try this:

sudo rsync -ai /media/WINDOWS/* /storage/

Thanks for the idea but still no go. Maybe it has something to do with file permissions? Not really sure but this is a pretty big problem considering the main objective of this server is a fileserver.

[the_original_billq]

I am trying to copy the files from my WHS disk to my Ubuntu Server disk. I have the windows disk mounted at /media/WINDOWS and I want to transfer to /storage so I ran;

sudo cp -r /media/WINDOWS /storage

It takes about 4-5 seconds and is complete, but there is about 500 GB worth of data there so I know it didn't really copy everything over. When I look at the files in console it shows them, but when I look at the /storage through SAMBA on my Windows machine, it only shows the directories. Am I doing something wrong with the 'cp' command? Is there a better way to do this?

I went back to your original post, because I have a question about how you are verifying that it is not copying files.

From a terminal session on the server, if you do:

find /storage -type f

...nothing shows up?

Let's make sure it's not a Windows or Samba issue...

-Bill

[GriFF3n]

From a terminal session on the server, if you do:

find /storage -type f

-Bill

I get nothing. I sftp into my box from work using FileZilla. I connect and can navigate my files. I can go into the files I've "copied", but cannot access them. I see the files and their types, but they are not showing the true size or anything. If I do a 'file' on any of the files in these directories, I get a "unsupported reparse point'

[the_original_billq]

Let's understand this a bit better.

Can you create a simple text file in /storage?

Try doing something very simple, like

cp /etc/profile /storage/foo

cat /storage/foo

If that doesn't work, I would ask... Is /storage local, or a Samba-mounted filesystem?

[psusi]

Is /storage an NTFS partition? It sounds like it is and that it's messed up. Don't use NTFS on a linux server.