"Filesize limit exceeded" error
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, -- -Chuck
Chuck Noyes 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 that you're exceeding the file size limit of that file system. -- Rich
Richard Klein wrote, on Apr 01, 2007 at 14:04 EDT:
Chuck Noyes 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 that you're exceeding the file size limit of that file system.
Indeed. FAT16 can only support files up to 2GB, and FAT32 can only support files up to 4GB. I haven't heard of a FAT64 yet, but NTFS can support files up to 1 exabyte (1x10^6 terabytes). (Or was that exbibyte...?) -- Aaron Haviland
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:04:28 -0400 Richard Klein <rich@richardklein.org> wrote:
Chuck Noyes 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 that you're exceeding the file size limit of that file system.
It's a FAT32 filesystem. -- -Chuck
Chuck Noyes wrote:
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:04:28 -0400 Richard Klein <rich@richardklein.org> wrote:
Chuck Noyes 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 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?
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:
Chuck Noyes 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 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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Chuck Noyes 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, If you're copying via a windows machine the file will have to be stored on your workstation on the way to the target.
Also remember that windows doesn't understand unix file ownership, certain permissions, and of course symbolic links. /m
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