[Wlug] "Filesize limit exceeded" error

[Mark Richards]

Chuck Noyes wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:04:28 -0400
> Richard Klein <rich at 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?