ah that explains it, any good rar programs out there for linux that you
recommend?

2009/6/5 Andy Taylor <[email protected]>

>  fat32 can't take files over 4gb. Ntfs can
>
> Andy
>
> On 5 Jun 2009, at 12:07, Richard Forth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   Not sure if this is relevant, but the Mybook is a Fat32 Filesystem, its
> not a Fat32 limitation is it?
>
>
> 2009/6/5 Richard Forth <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Im running Debian Lenny, basically I have a history of scratching DVD's
>> and I recently bought Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars which I plan to
>> install and play on my windows box. anyway the point is for some reason the
>> disc keeps giving out CRC errors on files that clearly have no CRC errors
>> (the forums revealed a known issue with these disks not working in
>> certain DVD drives). I tried to make an ISO of it in Windows using Sonic!
>> Recordnow, planning to use Daemon Tools to mount the ISO and run it liek
>> that - thus avoiding scratching teh original disc - but it stops halfway
>> through complaing the disk is scratched or damaged or has CRC errors. The
>> disk by the way is brand new out of teh box and has no mark on it at all.
>>
>> My Lenny machine has a DVD rom in it so I thought I'd try creating an ISO
>> of it using the "dd" command and seeing if it fell over at the same point,
>> but no it didnt, this time it completed and I have (or at least had, until I
>> deleted it out of frustration, a full 7.7Gb IS image of the original DVD.
>>
>> The problem is when i tried to copy this iso file from the local disc
>> (which still had a good 5 or 6 gig free space on it, not that this is
>> relevant?) to my USB Hard disk - a MyBook with over 415Gb free space. The
>> goal being to put the file back on the Windows box where i half another half
>> terrabyte in SATA disk space to host the ISO, mount it in Daemon Tools, and
>> hopefully play the game.
>>
>> Yet the file copy stops at about thr 4 gig mark and says "Error: File Too
>> Big".
>>
>> I dont know why the file would be too big as there is masses of space on
>> the MyBook - is there some sort of maximum file size that Linux can copy?
>> The only other theory I have is that somehow Linux is caching the file
>> locally as it copies it and therefore running out of space, why it would do
>> this I dont know, so I think that theory's probably bunkum.
>>
>> Any ideas how i can split the file in two so I can get it onto the MyBook
>> and presumably re-join it again later?
>>
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