i know that a fat32 filesystem has a 4gb limit, and that an ext3 system
(that's what i'm using) has a limit considerably higher.... why then can't i
build a file any bigger than 2gb on my machine?
to clarify, i've run into this problem two notable times:
(1) using ffmpeg, i was converting a 3.8gb file sitting on a fat32 partition
to an mpg in my home directory (ext3). it went for about 20min and died at
the 2gb mark. there was an error then, but i can't remember what it was.
(2) and today, i was tarballing about 5gb of files into one tar.bz2 file. the
directory i was tarballing was on a samba share on a winxp machine, and the
tarball was being built on my local box (ext3). it failed with the following
error:
11633 Broken pipe
what's that?
is the problem with the host filesystem (fat32 or ntfs) or with the target?
(ext3) can someone help me out and give me a hint as to what's causing this?
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