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. From: "Elvedin Trnjanin" <trnja001 at umn.edu> To: "tclug-list" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 10:01:32 AM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Unable to copy over large vmdk files Raymond, 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? On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:48 AM, < admin at lctn.org > wrote: I'm not sure if this is a vmfs issue or linux, so starting here. 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. Any ideas how to resolve? Raymond Norton LCTN 952.955.7766 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170727/6009ebee/attachment-0001.html>