Re: Copying large files to a thumb drive?
Daniel Beer <[email protected]>
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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:38:00PM +1200, Worik Stanton wrote: > All works well except that the 5GB files do not copy happily. At about > 4GB the copy process fails complaining the file is to large, or it fails > silently. > > I have tried drag and drop in Nautilus, the cp command and the dd > command. I was about to use split, cp and cat but if some one has a > reason this is happening it could speed things up remarkably. > I am wondering if another file system might help. According to mount it > is vfat, the drive I am copying the files from is fuseblk (not sure what > that is). The maximum size of any file on a FAT filesystem is 4 GB (minus one byte), so yes, the filesystem is the problem. -- Daniel Beer <[email protected]> www.dlbeer.co.nz IRC: inittab (Freenode) PGP key: 2048D/160A553B _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/