R.Smith wrote: > > > On 2015-03-16 12:49 AM, javaj1811 at elxala.com wrote: >> Hi Joe, >> >> good point, I've tested the fail scenario having the database located >> in a NTFS disk with the result of NO FAIL!!! >> so the insertion was done without sqlite error. >> now the problem seems to be reduced to Windows and FAT32 (and maybe >> FAT) drives >> could you tell me why did you suspect about the drive type ? > > You do know what the "32" in FAT32 means right? For all intents and > purposes, in a FAT32 system, that disk might actually be full. Maximum > size for a FAT32 disk used to be 32GB but there are some programs > available which can write a FAT32 allocation table with 512 byte > sectors up to about ~2TB - which I'm hoping is the case for you - but > more likely you are hitting the upper bound at 32GB. Even if you did > manage to extend the partition beyond 32GB, the maximum file size will > be 1 byte shy of 4GB. If you exceed any of these hard limits, you will > get a disk-full error (correctly because in a FAT32 universe, that > disk or file is in fact "Full"). > > Btw, FAT32 must be the near worst file system ever used in history > (and I'm not blaming Microsoft, they had to try to come up with > "something" that could be backward compatible with FAT16 and provide > larger storage, but in normal use it is atrocious). Is there a reason > you need to use it? > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >
Ok, the limit of 4GB for a file in FAT32 seems to be the cause of the problem, I didn't realize it since until now I never needed such big files in my home computer and also get confused by the error message (definitively not disk full but file full). answering your question >>> Is there a reason you need to use it? The disk was already formatted with FAT32 when I bought it some years ago. And indeed is the most reliable external drive disk that I have in the last years but now I've learned that is not appropiate for my big sqlite databases! thank you for your feedback!
