[ale] moving an .iso

[Aaron Ruscetta]

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.

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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