[opensuse] general question USB stick
Having one USB stick with 14,4 GB I wondered why a 4,4 GB iso file could not be copied to this stick. Formatted as Fat it informed me that it could only hold 4,2 GB. Have formatted now with ext2 and it now takes the iso file with ease. Could somebody give me some background info? -- Linux User 183145 using KDE4 and LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 20150909 (x86_64) Kernel: 4.2.0-6.g31d60fb-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.14.10 13:48pm up 1:34, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.28, 0.59 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Having one USB stick with 14,4 GB I wondered why a 4,4 GB iso file could not be copied to this stick. Formatted as Fat it informed me that it could only hold 4,2 GB. Have formatted now with ext2 and it now takes the iso file with ease.
Could somebody give me some background info?
Filesystem limitation - FAT does not support files bigger than 4Gb. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 09/16/2015 09:07 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Having one USB stick with 14,4 GB I wondered why a 4,4 GB iso file could not be copied to this stick. Formatted as Fat it informed me that it could only hold 4,2 GB. Have formatted now with ext2 and it now takes the iso file with ease.
Could somebody give me some background info?
Filesystem limitation - FAT does not support files bigger than 4Gb.
ISO is short for ISO9660 and is itself a file system type. Is this ISO image something bootable? Then you'd most likely copy it on the raw USB device rather than as file inside another file system on that device. Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 09/16/2015 09:07 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Having one USB stick with 14,4 GB I wondered why a 4,4 GB iso file could not be copied to this stick. Formatted as Fat it informed me that it could only hold 4,2 GB. Have formatted now with ext2 and it now takes the iso file with ease.
Could somebody give me some background info? Filesystem limitation - FAT does not support files bigger than 4Gb. ISO is short for ISO9660 and is itself a file system type. Is this ISO image something bootable? Then you'd most likely copy it on the raw USB device rather than as file inside another file system on that device.
Have a nice day, Berny So you could use commands like : ls /dev/sd* fdisk -l /dev/sdb
On 09/16/2015 09:17 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sdb Beware of the last one, if you mistake on the argument it could erase your whole hard disk ! ! Dsant, from France -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Per Jessen