On 21/03/07, Winter <winter at frostmarch.com> wrote: > > 4) With but one partition left to convert from NTFS to ext3, this > > one had to be the difficult one. It's my old C: partition from which I > > used to boot Windows. Three times now, with cp and tar, it has hung > > somewhere in the Documents and Settings directory and nothing brings it > > back. > > I got nothin'. :( > > Give cpio a shot? > > What's your tar command? There are Strange Things in various Windows directories that are a royal pain in the arse to copy for whatever reason. It's like they have locks or something, Windows system file-esque, that don't necessarily live in the root of c:\. I've worked around this in the past painstakingly figuring out what can and can't be copied and scripting as I went. It wasn't pretty. Will.