[SOLVED]error copying large files

abdus · Last edited by abdus on Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:37 pm; edited 1 time in total

hello everyone how are you doing? hope you're doing well. could anyone of you please help me with this problem: every time i copy a file that has a size bigger than 4 gb whether using a gui like nautilus or cli like cp i cannot copy it all and i get an error saying "error copying file, file too large". the copy is done to a flash drive that i plug directly to the machine
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psycho · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 534 Location: New Zealand

Hi there. Some filesystems like FAT32 have a maximum file size of 4GB. You've probably got a FAT32 (vfat) flash drive there, in which case you'll need to reformat the drive as e.g. ext4 (for Linux) or NTFS (for Windows) if you want to put larger files on it.

abdus · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:27 am Post subject:

i understand, i thought i did not configure the related tools and programs correctly and i thought i was able to copy large files to fat32 in other platforms successfully. what do you think i guess i was wrong and the file system is different
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abdus · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:35 am Post subject:

thank you very much, you're right, i just did not realize it
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psycho · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 534 Location: New Zealand

Cool, I'm glad you got it working: if you like you can edit your original post to add [SOLVED] to the title so that other readers know that you're not still needing help with this.