[ale] moving an .iso

[Sean Kilpatrick]

Okay; down to the nitty gritty.
Within our slightly extended family I may have to exchange fairly large 
data files between by laptop -- Linux, two other Linux computers, my tablet 
-- Android, at least six Mac products, and at least two Micro$oft 
computers.

What is the better option for a file system on a 32 G micro SD card that 
can be read by all four operating systems?  Wandering through Google 
search results, I see that OS-X can READ, but not WRITE to a NTFS 
partition.


Sean

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On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 05:40:24 pm 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.
> 
> 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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