fat32 can't take files over 4gb. Ntfs can

Andy

On 5 Jun 2009, at 12:07, Richard Forth <richard.fo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not sure if this is relevant, but the Mybook is a Fat32 Filesystem, its not a 
Fat32 limitation is it?

 
2009/6/5 Richard Forth <richard.fo...@gmail.com>
Hi
 
Im running Debian Lenny, basically I have a history of scratching DVD's and I 
recently bought Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars which I plan to install 
and play on my windows box. anyway the point is for some reason the disc keeps 
giving out CRC errors on files that clearly have no CRC errors (the forums 
revealed a known issue with these disks not working in certain DVD drives). I 
tried to make an ISO of it in Windows using Sonic! Recordnow, planning to use 
Daemon Tools to mount the ISO and run it liek that - thus avoiding scratching 
teh original disc - but it stops halfway through complaing the disk is 
scratched or damaged or has CRC errors. The disk by the way is brand new out of 
teh box and has no mark on it at all.
 
My Lenny machine has a DVD rom in it so I thought I'd try creating an ISO of it 
using the "dd" command and seeing if it fell over at the same point, but no it 
didnt, this time it completed and I have (or at least had, until I deleted it 
out of frustration, a full 7.7Gb IS image of the original DVD.
 
The problem is when i tried to copy this iso file from the local disc (which 
still had a good 5 or 6 gig free space on it, not that this is relevant?) to my 
USB Hard disk - a MyBook with over 415Gb free space. The goal being to put the 
file back on the Windows box where i half another half terrabyte in SATA disk 
space to host the ISO, mount it in Daemon Tools, and hopefully play the game.
 
Yet the file copy stops at about thr 4 gig mark and says "Error: File Too Big".
 
I dont know why the file would be too big as there is masses of space on the 
MyBook - is there some sort of maximum file size that Linux can copy? The only 
other theory I have is that somehow Linux is caching the file locally as it 
copies it and therefore running out of space, why it would do this I dont know, 
so I think that theory's probably bunkum.
 
Any ideas how i can split the file in two so I can get it onto the MyBook and 
presumably re-join it again later?

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