Chuck Noyes wrote:
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:04:28 -0400 Richard Klein <rich@richardklein.org> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm trying to copy a 7.9GB tgz file to an external USB drive. The external drive is 500GB. About half way through the cp process, I get the error message:
8119 file size limit exceeded cp maui-Sun.tgz /media/My\ Book/chuck/
There's plenty of space on the USB drive. I'm running 'edgy eft' on a laptop.
Any ideas on what might be going on here??
TIA, What's the file system on the external drive? FAT32? My guess is
Chuck Noyes wrote: that you're exceeding the file size limit of that file system.
It's a FAT32 filesystem.
"Fat" in this case stands for "FAgheTaboutit". Although FAT32 has a 2TB limit on the total size of the partition, it has a filesize limit of 4GB. Apparently every byte has to be stored on your windows machine before it can be sent out. Have you considered scp?