Hi Sérgio :)
* Sergio Monteiro Basto <[email protected]> dixit:
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 15:53 +0100, DervishD wrote:
> > * Sergio Monteiro Basto <[email protected]> dixit:
> > > Have vfat a limit of a file size when copy ?
> >
> > 2GB, if I recall correctly. FAT32 itself has a limit of 4GB-1 for
> > file size, but Linux restricts it even more (don't ask me why).
>
> May I say that FAT32 have a bigger limit (at least on last Windows).
I really don't know, but from microsoft technical information
(the first or second hit when googling for "FAT32 size limit"), the
limit they specify in FAT32 is 2^32-1.
I may be wrong, but with 32 bits you cannot address more than
2^32 bytes, I don't know how can you create a bigger-than-4Gb file in
a FAT32 filesystem without resorting to tricks like this:
forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-20689.html
Looks like FAT-32 (don't ask me how because I don't know the
internals) can store a file bigger than 4GB, but you cannot *save*
it. So you won't be able to put the file you have back to any FAT32
filesystem, I'm afraid.
> Have you a solution for the case ? Now I have the file in ext3 and
> I couldn't copy to any vfat :)
No, I don't have any idea about how to do it, sorry :(
> I have a solution with cifs or smbmount, but in same computer ?
I doubt. That limit is a hard limit as far as I know. Google for
"FAT32 limit" and you'll get a lot of answers telling it. I don't
really know how did you get a bigger than 4GB file saved in a FAT32
filesystem in the first place ;))
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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