On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:55:23 -0400 Mark Richards <mark.richards@massmicro.com> wrote:
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?
Thanks to all who responded. Indeed, it's a FAT32 restriction. I have another computer running Kubuntu and I can scp the file to that machine without any problems.. Thanks again, -Chuck
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