On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Gary Roach <garyro...@verizon.net> wrote: > I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for > a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB and stops. I > tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. The df command shows the > card has 32GB. I thought that vfat was only good to 4 GB but the card came > formatted to vfat. Any suggestions? Can the card be formatted to ext3? Would > that help? Is the card the problem? I am using a SanDisk USB card reader, > model SDDR-113 which is supposed to handle 32GB cards. Debian Squeeze and > Wheezy systems gave same results. > > Gary R. >
Hi Gary, fat limits you with 4GiB files. So, if you don't want to format, you can use split to break the file. Something like: $tar czpvf - /path/archive | split -d -b 4096M - myfile The only problem is that you need to cat the files back to extract. $cat myfile* > onebigfile or $cat myfile* | tar xzpvf - Cheers, Beco -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher --> . <-- "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know..." (Carl Sagan, 1934-1996) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caluyw2wu8dz4sz4cdz+9jshfrrcbrraq3p04ei9uyvj5eo4...@mail.gmail.com
