Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: vfat large file support | Date | 16 May 2001 19:19:38 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20010517040000.A22911@convergence.de> By author: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I can't copy a file larger than 2 gigs to my vfat partition. > What gives? 2.4.4-ac5 kernel. My cp copies 2 gigs and then aborts. > > $ echo foo >> file_on_vfat_partition > > causes the shell to become unresponsive and consume lots of CPU time. >
VFAT doesn't support files larger than 2 GB.
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