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I am copying a large file (8G..mysql backup.sql) to my USB disk (I also tried copy it to another machine). But it always give me an error when it copies about 4G files. It seems that suse linux can not handle files bigger than 4G. Are there any solutions or workaround?

thanks for your attention.
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RE: Copy large files (8G) in suse linux 9.3?

Hi,



Make sure you are using a filesystem that can handle large files, files bigger than 4GB.

The problem is the filesystem that you copy the file to.

Has this USB drive a Fat32 filesystem?

If so that will not work, you will have to use a filesystem that can handle files bigger that 4GB

In linux you should use ext3 filesystems, if you want to use a Microsoft filesystem you can use NTFS.

With an additional software package you should be able to mount that ntfs volume read/write

Have a look at the website

http://www.ntfs-3g.org

This will work for Fedora, I am not sure about Suse...



-R.
 
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