File transfer to USB drive fails after 4.3 gb

posted 11 months ago

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/9729797

I am needing to transfer a singular file of roughly 4.8GB from Linux Mint onto a thumb drive, so that I can transfer it to my Windows install on a separate partition on the same PC. However, it has repeatedly failed after 4.3GB, with an error message reading “Error splicing file: File too large”.

How do I fix this issue, or get around it? I need that file moved.

EDIT: This issue has been resolved. It was caused by the thumb drive being formatted as MSdos, reformatting it to exfat seems to have done the trick. Just used right-click “format” on linux mint, no need for console or booting up windows.

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bartolomeo@suppo.fi

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11 months ago

Edit: nevermind, apparently I was wrong.

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xkforce@lemmy.world

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11 months ago

Theyd need a ntfs driver to do anything. If you try to do what you are suggesting without one, bad things happen. Unless that part of the partition isn’t ntfs formatted.

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bartolomeo@suppo.fi

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11 months ago

For real? Even just cp?

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xkforce@lemmy.world

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We have a specific driver for reading and writing to ntfs for a reason.

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bartolomeo@suppo.fi

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11 months ago

What’s the reason? Honest question.

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jokro@feddit.de

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Drives are basically just a very long numbered list of bytes, no files, no folders, nothing. Just a long list of bytes. So how do you know what’s written between bytes 2300 and 2400? You need some sort of table that describes that and store it somewhere. So that’s there a filesystem comes in, it’s a format to write that table and place the file contents. (Simplified). cp, mv, tar and any other program don’t know how to write that format, they only know how to tell the Operating system to write or read a file. To do that the operating system needs to know how to work with that specific filesystem, a compoment called driver does that. Drivers for different filesystems exist and allow the operating system to access them in a common way, even though the underlying file systems differ a lot.

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