<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 3:04 PM Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 23:49, Kevin O'Gorman <<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com" target="_blank">kogorman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> It persists in giving me errors with messages that don't make sense: File too big when there's plenty of space, for starters.<br>
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If you're backing up onto FAT disks, you need to remember the size limits.<br>
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On FAT32 a file can only be up to 2GB (less 1 sector), no more.<br>
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exFAT allows bigger but it is not enabled by default on most Linuxes<br>
because it's MS patent protected. Cynically I think this is 1 reason<br>
they did exFAT -- because they tried to copyright FAT32 but it was too<br>
late, dozens of 3rd parties had implemented it.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>All my backup media are ext4 (maybe an occasional NTFS, but not lately).</div><div>So I still don't get it. Nowadays it's almost always a 4 TB internal drive in</div><div>a USB 3 drive dock, and I formatted it EXT4 myself to give it names that</div><div>make sense in my backup scheme. I have a dozen or so of these.<br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kevin O'Gorman<br></div>#define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */<br><br><div><span style="line-height:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><span style="line-height:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"></span></span><table width="448" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="25"><img src="cid:XVHDKDFDBURW.IMAGE_60.gif" width="25" height="21"></td>
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