<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I originally powered down the vm , sshd to the esxi server and attempted to use scp. That didn't work so I unexported from my vmware environment and exported to my Linux box. . The volume is mounted via: sudo vmfs-fuse /dev/sdg2 LV2. the target drive has been NTFS but now is EXT4.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Elvedin Trnjanin" <trnja001@umn.edu><br><b>To: </b>"tclug-list" <tclug-list@mn-linux.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, July 27, 2017 10:01:32 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [tclug-list] Unable to copy over large vmdk files<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr">Raymond, <br><br>Could be both. How are you mounting the volume and what is the destination file system? Is this a clone of the volume or are VMs currently powered on and using the VMDKs on the same volume you are copying?<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:48 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:admin@lctn.org" target="_blank">admin@lctn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div>I'm not sure if this is a vmfs issue or linux, so starting here.</div><br><div>I have mounted a 3par volume (thinly provisioned vmfs) on my Linux box (64 bit) and I am attempting to copy it to a second hd. I have tried cp, scp, and rsync but the 1.6Tb file ends up with a zero file size on the target hd after many hours of growing in size during the copy. Smaller files copy over fine. It is only the large vmdk with this problem.</div><br><div>Any ideas how to resolve?</div><br><br><br><div>Raymond Norton<br>LCTN<br><a href="tel:(952)%20955-7766" target="_blank">952.955.7766</a></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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