Limit of file siae on USB drives?
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? -- === You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akons...@sbcglobal.net -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?
Once upon a time, Aaron Konstam akons...@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. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?
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 -- (fed...@greenfield.dyndns.org) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:19 -0500 Chris Adams wrote: If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable under other OSes though. I've got mine formatted with NTFS which seems to work OK on most systems and also supports big files. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?
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? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?
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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?
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. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.3-103.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 18 15:46:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. My apologies for not including a virus with this message, but I don't use Windows. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
