Problems with copy and move

[Christian]

Hello Tim,
Many thanks, will try to mount one of my NTFS partitions and see if it works. Will also compress the file if possible.
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2006-07-28 at 16:51 Tim Chase wrote:

>> I am trying to copy a 8 GB file from my Linux partition onto
>> one of my Windows partitions (in this case a FAT32). However,
>> I can only copy about 4 gigs and then it complains about the
>> file size limit has been reached or simular.
>
>FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4 gigs (okay, 4-gigabytes minus 
>a couple bytes of overhead, truth be told).  If it were FAT16, 
>you might only get to about 2 gigs.
>
>A couple ideas:
>
>You might be able to compress the file on your Linux side of 
>things and then send the compressed version over to the FAT32.  I 
>don't know if Zip has any sort of problem with such large files. 
>  Using gzip or bzip/bzip2 might have better success with the matter.
>
>You might be able to, with the proper drivers, copy the file to 
>an NTFS partition (which has some astronomical filesize limit of 
>something like 16 exabytes).
>
>I think those are your best options.
>
>-tim
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