"Error splicing file: File too large"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 13:37:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 13:06:32 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>hi,
>>On So, 2016-09-18 at 12:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:  
>>> 
>>> And how should we know what somebody means when using GB for both?
>>> Was
>>> the OP talking about 2 ^ 30 or talking about 10 ^ 9 and how do we
>>> know
>>> that? If we would distinguish, call one always GB and the other
>>> always
>>> GiB, there would be no doubts. IMO 10 ^ 9 anyway is grotesque and
>>> never should be used as a scale related to bits and bytes. 
>>>     
>>how does it matter, the OP has a 14 gig (see what i did here ? ;) ...
>>) file and uses a fat32 filesystem that can not handle file sizes
>>above 4.
>>
>>which causes the error he is seeing ... 
>>
>>the difference of 1000 vs 1074 bytes in the measurement units is not
>>relevant at all for this ...
>>
>>also the original post only uses GB i dont see where you see a prob
>>with this. before you claimed he should use GiB instead there was no
>>confusion or mix-up of any units (even karl talked aboout GB in his
>>answer)  
>
>It does matter, since it was recommended to reformat the stick with a
>file system that can handle large files. Assuming that the size of the
>stick was given in GB 10 ^ x and the size of the file GB 2 ^ x,
>reformatting the stick with another file system would only cause new
>write access, good for nothing, excepted of decreasing the accesses
>left until the stick reaches its end of life and apart from this, the
>OP might chose a file system, that isn't compatible with each operating
>system.

PS: As already pointed out, the stick size is 16 GB, so maybe
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.