Re: Copying large files to a thumb drive?

A handy reference is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits to compare
these sorts of things.


(Interestingly enough my flatmate's Satellite Freeview will record to
external USB storage but only if it's formatted as FAT32 leading to a
stupid 4 hour recording limit - recording at approx. 1GB per hour)


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Daniel Beer <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
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