Hi,
how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
TFH

Bartek bartek@tzi.de, wrote in message
m5eoe$362$1@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de:
> Hi,
> how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
> NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
> error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
> TFH

Zip it.

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Prof.Doogle wrote:
> Bartek bartek@tzi.de, wrote in message
> m5eoe$362$1@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de:
>
>>Hi,
>>how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
>>NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
>>error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
>>TFH
>
>
> Zip it.
>
Yeh, but zip does not help for bigger files.

Bartek bartek@tzi.de, wrote in message
m5hi8$3or$1@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de:
> Prof.Doogle wrote:
>> Bartek bartek@tzi.de, wrote in message
>> m5eoe$362$1@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
>>> NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
>>> error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
>>> TFH
>>
>>
>> Zip it.
>>
> Yeh, but zip does not help for bigger files.

You can specify your preferences to your preferred Zip contraption how the
file/s should be handled, namely breaking up the file up into n sized
pieces.

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Bartek, <bartek@tzi.de>, the orwellian, syphilitic elephant, and door
keeper, expelled:

> Hi,
> how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
> NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
> error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
> TFH

The amount of RAM the machine has is likely the factor inhibiting total
completion of large file transfer.

Reboot.





"Bartek" <bartek@tzi.de> wrote in message
news:dm5hi8$3or$1@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de...
> Prof.Doogle wrote:
>> Bartek bartek@tzi.de, wrote in message
>> m5eoe$362$1@kohl.informatik.uni-bremen.de:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
>>>NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
>>>error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
>>>TFH
>>
>>
>> Zip it.
> Yeh, but zip does not help for bigger files.

Bartek <bartek@tzi.de> wrote:

>how can I copy a file, bigger then 2 GB on my hdd. The filesystem is
>NTFS, and there should be no constraints for filesize. But i get the
>error, "maximum filesize reached" at exactly 2 GB.
>TFH

Are you transferring to another drive, or another partition on one
drive? It sounds like something is formatted FAT32. I'd double check
the file types. I just copied an 8.9gb file from one physical hard
drive to another physical hard drive as a test. It went fine.
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