"Error splicing file: File too large"

[Dave Stevens]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:22:50 +1000
Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 2016-09-17 at 15:23 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > I made a zip file of 14.1 GB and copied it to a new 16GB usb flash  
> > drive and got this message at about the 99% mark. I didn't know
> > there was a file size limit and the drive properties showed enough
> > space beforehand.  
> 
> There is no file size limit at 14.1GB.
> 
> That 16GB of capacity includes everything - including losses to
> formatting and file system chunking. Also, stick sizes are often in
> billions of bytes, not actual gigabytes - there's a significant
> difference when you get up into high numbers.
> 
> Sometimes cheap USB sticks are also deliberately mislabeled and
> sometimes even fraudulently programmed to report higher capacities
> than they have.
> 
> But I don't think any of that is your problem:
> 
> > 2GB RAM, lots of space on /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1 (the flash drive) is
> > FAT32, is that an issue?  
> 
> My understanding is that FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB. This
> website seems to confirm that:
> 
>  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938432.aspx
> 
> I don't know how you got to 99%.
> 
> To store files larger than 4GB, you will need to use NTFS or one of
> the Unix filesystem types such as ext4. This wikipedia page has a good
> comparison of filesystem limits:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
> 
> NTFS is pretty much the only choice if you need to share between Win
> and random nonWin systems, but it is a very sensitive filesystem;
> always properly eject it before removal.
> 
> ext4 is much more robust, and with third-party software you can still
> read it on Windows:
> 
>    http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
> 
> However, I'm not sure it can read encrypted partitions.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 

ok, thanks, I'll reformat as NTFS and check out exFAT

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