[Wlug] "Filesize limit exceeded" error

[Chuck Noyes]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:55:23 -0400
Mark Richards <mark.richards at massmicro.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 

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