cp - File Size limits ???

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:39:24 -0400
jack <jdangler at terremark.com> wrote:

> I have a movie.iso file (3.1Gb) in size that I am trying to copy to a 4
> Gb flash drive like this:
> cp ./movie.iso /media/NEW\ VOLUME/
> 
> About 2/3 of the way through, it dies with this message:
> File size limit exceeded (core dumped)

Is the flash drive a "fat" file system ? they usually are...
Since I think it is likely to be fat 16  I expect the
file size limit is 2G. This would tie in with it stopping about 2/3 of the
way through.

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

> 
> Is there a way to overcome a files size limitation in cp?

I don't think that cp is the problem here.

> Is there some other way to accomplish this?

Use another file system ? I notice you also posted a question about making
an ntfs file system - is this related ? ( i.e. have you come to the same
conclusion )

Peter