I have an NTFS disk where the folder names contain Unicode characters (Vietnamese).  Doing an ls on the mounted NTFS disk from telnet or the console yields the folder names with a bunch of escape characters.  I even shared out the NTFS mount and the folder names on my Windows XP Pro looks fine, but on my Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ (linux based) does not properly display the folder names correctly, which has always been this way even when I was sharing the drive out on a Windows machine.

 

Now my question:

 

How can I safely copy these folders from the mounted NTFS disk to an unRAID disk?  Basically, the folders either starts with the letter P or A and I need to copy only folders starting with P to one disk and A to another disk?  I read the one thread about Greek characters where the copy process left out some files.

 

In my case, only the folder names have the Unicode characters.

I cannot be absolutelly certain, but as i have been using the unraid quite a lot the last months and have done tons of copies, i can assure you that i never had any problems with files or folders with greek characters

Looks like the cp command handles Unicode folder names correctly.

So I am moving data from my NTFS drives to my unRAID disks via the /mnt/disk# using the cp command.  However, I have no idea what kind of write performance I am getting other then the disk performance unMenu page.  Is there a way to get a summary of the cp command like # of bytes copied and the time it took and an average transfer speed?  Basically something like what Teracopy displays while copying.  I would assume this would be trivial for Linux.

 

The unMenu disk performace page fluctuates too widely.  I prefer the command line since I have not invested time in installing a better telnet than Hyperterminal on my Windows machine.  Also I am using the SuperMicro IPMI remote KVM (over LAN) and my laptop mouse does not work for MC.

 

Ironically, for a Windows user, I feel more comfortable on the command line when I use UNIX or Linux.

Download and install PuTTY, you will thank yourself later.  Then use midnight commander (type mc at the prompt) to transfer your files.  It gives you a graphical interface and tells you the percent done and how fast it s going.

Have you tried the 'iostat' command? Not sure if unRAID has this though.