[ale] moving an .iso

[Justin Goldberg]

There's an app called Ntfs Mounter that is able to mount ntfs formatted sd
cards and usb sticks.



On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> I know I'm late to this party but...
>
> On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 17:40 -0500, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
> > Hey Sean!
> >
> > You're definitely running into the 4GB file size limit
> > of FAT 32 with this SD card issue.  I run into this
> > file system concern frequently since I need to
> > transfer very large uncompressed or high quality
> > video files with colleagues often.
>
> ExFAT?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
>
> > File size limit of 16 EiB-1 byte.[nb 1] (limited by volume size),
> > raised from 4 GiB-1 byte in a standard FAT32 filesystem.[2] (The open
> > FAT32+[7] specification proposes an extension how to store files up to
> > 256 GB on otherwise backward-compatible FAT32 volumes as well. This
> > extension is available in some versions of DR-DOS so far, but is
> > trivial to implement in other FAT32 implementations as well.)
>
> Most of the larger (32/64GB+) SD cards are preformated with exfat, not
> vfat, but you have to use the FUSE exfat file system and utilities on
> Linux.  If you reformat the card on Linux using mkfs.vfat, you lose
> that.  It's the format my Canon camera uses with 64GB cards, so I've
> gotten use to it even though the file size limit isn't important to me.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> > If you are using this SD card with Macs and Linux then
> > you can format it HFS+, but note that if you format it with
> > journaling enabled you will only be able to READ it in
> > Linux -- the writing part of Apples HFS journalling
> > hasn't been translated for Linux yet.
> >
> > If you are using any kind of storage with Windisease
> > machines and Linux, then NTFS is the easy option
> > so long as there are never any Mac's in the picture.
> > MafiaSoft's proprietay NTFS and Apple don't play
> > together at all because of the insanity of user abusive
> > corporapist turf wars. There are FUSE solutions, but
> > the FLOSS versions are painfully slow and the
> > commercial license extortion for a functional version
> > is about $30. MHO is that NTFS should always
> > be avoided because of this bullshit.  If you do have
> > to deal with  Mac <=> Windows file exchange there
> > are also some commercial extortion options for R/W of
> > HFS on under windisease.
> >
> > Hope that helped!
> >
> > in peace,
> > aaron
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Got a problem:
> > >
> > > I am trying to copy a large (7.8 gig) .iso file from my hard drive to
> a 32
> > > gig micro sd card.
> > >
> > > command fails after pushing about 4 gig over to the sd card.
> > >
> > > $ cp /tmp/kde-kilpatms/filename.iso /media/6F4B-C926/
> > >
> > > cp: writing `/media/6F4B-C926/filename.iso': File too large
> > >
> > > The sd card is empty so there is plenty of room.
> > >
> > > Trying to push that much data down a USB-2 pipe is another problem.
> > >
> > > Clues on how to move the file over would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Sean
> > >
> > >
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