[NTLUG:Discuss] Humpty Dumpty Syndrome: split and cat on a 5 gig file

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Sun Aug 7 22:59:28 CDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 21:21 -0500, Douglas Scott wrote:
> Because the FAT32 file system doesn't support files larger than 4 Gig.

Ahhh, now I understand what he was doing.  Okay, good catch.
Yes, you can't plop down a huge file on FAT32.
[ BTW, another reason to consider afio with its multi-volume support ]


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