kuszmar

Is that a big problem or does it sort out your problem?

Yes. it's a big problem. Almost 6TB to remove from one HD to other needs about 24h nonstop (eSATA 70MB/s). And free zone decreases every day.
 I'd like to have speed, don't loose place and to have comatibility (windows). Yeee... It's a problem.. So Ive decided to use ext4 but without clusters (bigalloc).

If you mount it (say, by a Device Manager), then FIleZilla Client will see it where it is mounted (see the attached screenshot).

 

I have done many a transfer like that.

 

Look:

FZC.jpg

 

On the left is my laptop and on the right is Red Eagle STB with an external HDD mounted as HDD and you can easily transfer stuff to and fro...

 

In my "A pretty thorough PBNIGMA II VX guide for Ferrari 500 HD by gorski_12.12.12" - on page 29 you have info as to how to work with FZC. Transfers are easy and they work, if they are not very fast...

 

You also have detailed info how to mount a device and so on...

 

If you really are worse than me maybe this can help...

Yeee.... Transfer in configuration HD(ext4)-eSATA->STB(xtrend)-10GbLAN->PC(win7) is about 30-35MB/s. Direct connection via eSATA - over 70MB/s.

Default format is ext4 with large cluster support. Windows will see this as "unformatted". Requires Linux 3.x (I think >= 2.6.37 might work) or newer. You'll probably just need a newer version of your distro.

 

If I remember correctly, it only creates GPT partitions when the disk is over 3TB.

I've checked both partitions by tune2fs -l /dev/... and that "made by xtrend" has extra feature "bigalloc" and exists there clusters (64x block).  Ext2fsd for Windows doesn't support it (but extent, large_file and huge_file supports...) and other Extended Attributes (info from Project site).

So i've to resign from clusters if I want use ext4 partition from Win.

File Zilla Client.

I am an IT more lay person then you, and don't understand, how FZClient can recognize files on HD invizible for OS.

Do it from the box, it wil optimize the disk for recording.

I've done it. Prepared in such way HD is invisible from Win7(+ext2Fsd) and Puppy Linux. I've checked Primery and Sec. GPT - Prim. GPT is empty! I've copied Sec. to Prime (with exchange Current and Backup LBA) but without success. Maybe deferences are deeper... I don't know what's going on.