Can't copy a file bigger than 4GB's between partitions

GoBillsBN · 10-30-2005, 08:51 PM

Anytime I try to copy a file larger than 4GB it stops right after 4GB has been transferred and gives me a "the file protocol has died suddenly" error.

This is within KDE 3.3, Mandriva 2005 LE distro. The file I'm trying to transfer between my linux partition and a fat32 partition is a 4.3GB iso.

I've tried just booting into the console and not into a windows manager, and it does the same thing, only transfers 4GB, but doesn't give me an error.

I have no clue what's going on, any help would be very much appreciated.

paulsm4 · 10-30-2005, 09:03 PM

Isn't fat32 limited to 4GB???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

GoBillsBN · 10-30-2005, 09:11 PM

hmmm.....looks like that would explain it

guess I'll need to find another way to transfer that file

is there a file splitter you can recommend that won't mess up the iso once it's reconstructed?

GoBillsBN · 10-30-2005, 09:38 PM

actually, I need a cross platform file splitter, since it would need to be re-assembled in windows

mammlouk · 10-30-2005, 09:40 PM

You could make a multipart rar file.

heema · 10-31-2005, 02:54 AM

i had the same problem

i just split them in linux with the split command (man split) then joined them in windows by typing : copy /B file.a* outputfilename

NOTE : you must join them in a NTFS partition

nx5000 · 10-31-2005, 02:55 AM

Under Linux, you split say "wholefile" it in several parts , part1, part2; using /usr/bin/split.

Under win32, you put the pieces together using copy part1+part2 wholefile /b