[Wlug] "Filesize limit exceeded" error

[Aaron Haviland]

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