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Old 05-31-2009, 02:31 AM   #1
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Cannot copy to /media/usbdisk


Dear,,

File size limit exceeded message appeared to me
while copying from the local mount points to external hard disk (/media/usbdisk)
Note:External hard disk is FAT32
How can solve this?

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Old 05-31-2009, 05:42 AM   #2
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FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit.
Go with EXT3 or try to break up the file(s) into smaller than 4GB sizes.
Why FAT32?
 
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I have to copy from ext3 Hard disk to FAT32 hard disk because NTFS can not be seen by ext3
 
  


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