"Error splicing file: File too large"

[Joel Rees]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> 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 ...

I assume that you mean, uhm, megabytes and mebibytes, or maybebytes or
something. At any rate, I assume you do not mean bytes.

(What power of 2 is 1074? ;-)

> 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)
>
> ciao
>         oli
> --

Well, it required some interpretation (as in JEDEC vs IEC vs IRM), and
fat32 is no longer fat32.

And you still find manufacturers depending on the idea that flash is
the new floppy, and most people don't need even half of the capacity
they buy, as someone mentioned.

(And, apparently, the OP's device was formatted in a variant of FAT32
that does handle greater than 4GB files, since it errored out at the
99% mark. Or something.)

Basically, with the state of the market, if you want to store 14.1 *
2^30 bytes (heh), you want storage media advertised to be at least
32GB, whether what you want to store is a single file or not.

Storage is a mess right now, and the purveyors of the 80% solution
(which was never even a 20% solution) are to blame.

-- 
Joel Rees

I'm imagining I'm a novelist:
http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.com/2016/04/economics-101-novel-rough-draft-index.html