Copying DVD ISOs?

[maxqnz]

I want to move some DVD ISOs from my Win XP partition to my much larger Kubuntu partition. Rather than start with a move, I tried a copy. Unfortunately the file managers I tried, Konqueror and Kommander both locked up. Kommander did manage to give me a 6.7GB version of the 7.7 GB iso I was trying to move, but obviously that's not much help. Is there anything I can do to facilitate copying these larger files?

[dibl]

Re: Copying DVD ISOs?

I'd hate to have to do this myself, but there is the console "cp" command -- did you try it that way yet? I'd have to look it up in the manual to get the whole command line requirements (i.e.

man cp

but I'm pretty sure it works.

[eriefisher]

Re: Copying DVD ISOs?

I think cp will work, however, I have always had problems cp from a windows partition because of the syntax windows uses(spaces). Linux console does not like spaces.

[maxqnz]

Re: Copying DVD ISOs?

I think cp will work, however, I have always had problems cp from a windows partition because of the syntax windows uses(spaces). Linux console does not like spaces.

I'll give that a go. Happily, the iso files are in my C:\ directory, and have no spaces in their filenames, so the spaces thing shouldn't be an issue.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Copying DVD ISOs?

Linux console does not like spaces.

That's what the single quote is for

cp -av '/strange path/strange name' /normal_path

[maxqnz]

Re: Copying DVD ISOs?

Happily, my "spaceless" ISO was copied without incident by "cp" - it took a while, of course, but worked just fine.