I have a cruser *gig usb drive on which I am tring to copy a 4.9 gig file. The copy craps out somewhere afte copying 4.3 gis on to the USB drive,
Is that some kind of hardware size limit or something else?
Once upon a time, Aaron Konstam akonstam@sbcglobal.net said:
I have a cruser *gig usb drive on which I am tring to copy a 4.9 gig file. The copy craps out somewhere afte copying 4.3 gis on to the USB drive,
Is that some kind of hardware size limit or something else?
Your drive is most likely formatted with the FAT (old DOS/Windows) filesystem, which only supports up to 4G files (where G=2^30, not 10^9). This actually has nothing to do with it being a USB or flash drive; it is just a limitation of the filesystem (that almost all flash drives and cards use, except for SDXC cards which use exFAT).
You can either split up your file or format the flash drive with a different filesystem. If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable under other OSes though.
On 03/26/2013 01:32 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
You can either split up your file or format the flash drive with a different filesystem. If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable under other OSes though.
If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that the various snoopy government agencies can't easily read, without going to the bother of encrypting it, especially as some of them claim the right to demand encryption keys. It's not your fault that they're using a dain-bramaged OS that can't read OSS file systems, such as ext4, is it?
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 13:55 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/26/2013 01:32 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
You can either split up your file or format the flash drive with a different filesystem. If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable under other OSes though.
If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that the various snoopy government agencies can't easily read, without going to the bother of encrypting it, especially as some of them claim the right to demand encryption keys. It's not your fault that they're using a dain-bramaged OS that can't read OSS file systems, such as ext4, is it?
You mean like the one in my set-top box?
poc
Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that the various snoopy government agencies can't easily read, without going to the bother of encrypting it, especially as some of them claim the right to demand encryption keys. It's not your fault that they're using a dain-bramaged OS that can't read OSS file systems, such as ext4, is it?
It strikes me that the "snoopy" services will probably have no trouble reading something as un-bizarre as ext4. I dare say that such things are child's play to them. It would be a tech that would assess hardware, not just any member of their staff.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I have a cruser *gig usb drive on which I am tring to copy a 4.9 gig file. The copy craps out somewhere afte copying 4.3 gis on to the USB drive,
Is that some kind of hardware size limit or something else?
USB Drive are typcially Formatted as FAT32 and that Filesystem has a 4 GB Filesize Limit!!!
Lawrence Houston -- (fedora@greenfield.dyndns.org)
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