"Error splicing file: File too large"

[Tony Arnold]

On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 07:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Nowadays gigabytes should not be named "GB", they should be named
> "GiB".
> "1GiB ≈ 1.074GB" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
> 
> So 16 * 0.074GB = 1.184GB, IOW 16GB - 1.184GB = 14.816GiB.
> 14.816GiB - 14.1Gib (file size) = 0.716GiB available for the chosen
> file
> system, to e.g. store file entries, such as file names, file dates,
> start of the files, end of the files, which might be not enough for
> around 14.816GiB formatted with what file system ever.
> 
> Perhaps the USB stick is too small to store a 14.1GB or 14.1GiB
> file, what file system every is chosen.

Just to add to this, disk manufacturers always quote their disk sizes
in GB, where as linux systems (e.g., ls -lh) report file sizes in GiB.
You can use the --si option on the ls command to get the size in GB,
which may help you gauge whether a file will fit or not.

I wish more people would use GiB and GB correctly (and their
counterparts, KiB/KB, MiB/MB, TiB/TB etc). It can save a lot of
confusion.

Regards,
Tony.


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