On Sunday, November 18, 2012 07:57:09 AM Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:58:29AM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > > Hi guys! > > > > > > I have a problem copying big files to an USB-stick using thunar in > > > > ... > > > > > I do this to copy ripped DVD's to USB memory for viewing in a TV > > > with > > > > ... > > > > > Nothing extremely serious, I can still copy the files using > > > terminal as I said, but it would be nice to have it working using > > > only Thunar too. > > > > You see this list talking the same problem :-) > > You are hitting 4GB limit of FAT. > > > > Reformat USB stick with > > > > * ext2/3/4 if moving around Linux. > > * Darwin UFS, I think, for Mac > > * NTFS for Windows ... > > (No need to CC the replies to me, I read the list) > > But I am not nowhere near using 4GB... Files are around 700MB each, and > one of the tried USB sticks is only 2GB big, so I would guess that > doesn't apply? - and as I said, it works just fine when doing the same > thing in a terminal. > > "Copying" works just fine in both terminal and Thunar, but when > unmounting the device (I guess its at this point the files are actually > written to the device), the action times out (and the resulting > files are not properly readable) when using Thunar, but not when using > the terminal. > > /Andreas
Try 'sync' after the write is supposedly complete; see what happens when the system actually tries to write to the device. Open a shell and 'tail -f /var/log/messages' to see if anything is griping about the device during writes. Hmmm. You *are* waiting for the cached data to be flushed to the drive before unplugging it, right? -- 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/201211181231.01744.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
