I am tearing what little hair I still have! I have ~38 GiB of photos in a directory on the main drive. I need to copy these to a flash drive. I have a 128 GiB flash drive. I can only copy about 4 or 5 photos to the flash drive. (I am trying to do this with Dolphin as a source and File Manager as the destination.) After it copies about 5 files, it will not copy any more. Directory shows 14 MiB on the disk. (I have previously cleared the flash with gParted and told it to be fat32-- I need the flash to be readable on a Windows machine.) It is now showing in gParted as sda *and* sdb, with different sizes used, but no where near the full size of 128 GiB. This is not the only flash drive I have seen this problem with, but it's the only one I have that *should* be big enough to hold all the photos. ( I need to send them to an insurance company.) Failure message is "Could not write to /run/media/root/9458-DC92/insurance_pix/9:1_balun.jpg." I can't even try this on another computer without downloading all the files from the camera again. ( I will if necessary, but I don't understand the failure mode.) --doug
On 10/29/21 4:40 PM, James Knott wrote:
On 2021-10-29 4:32 p.m., Douglas McGarrett wrote:
and told it to be fat32
I use exFAT and format it on a Windows computer. I will use NTFS. I forgot about t he size limits on other systems. If that doesn't work, I'll try to figure out how to format exFAT. --doug
On 2021-10-29 6:17 p.m., Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 2021-10-29 4:32 p.m., Douglas McGarrett wrote:
and told it to be fat32
I use exFAT and format it on a Windows computer. I will use NTFS. I forgot about t he size limits on other systems. If that doesn't work, I'll try to figure out how to format exFAT.
Depending on what I'll be doing, I'll format exFAT, NTFS or ext4.
Douglas McGarrett composed on 2021-10-29 16:32 (UTC-0400):
After it copies about 5 files, it will not copy any more. Directory shows 14 MiB on the disk. (I have previously cleared the flash with gParted and told it to be fat32
Media files are often larger than FAT32's maximum file size of 4GB-1. Could this be what's really going wrong? ExFAT has no 4GB-1 limit. Another possible problem is sloth. It may be that the real problem is backlog due to slow I/O if a USB2 stick, and/or USB2 port. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 2021-10-29 5:03 p.m., Felix Miata wrote:
Media files are often larger than FAT32's maximum file size of 4GB-1. Could this be what's really going wrong? ExFAT has no 4GB-1 limit.
Can exFAT be formatted in openSUSE? IIRC, it wants to do FAT32 on larger drives/partition. When I format exFAT, I boot my ThinkPad into Windows and format there.
James Knott composed on 2021-10-29 17:21 (UTC-0400):
Can exFAT be formatted in openSUSE? # inxi -Sy System: Host: 00srv Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.92-default x86_64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/0 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.2 # man exfat mkfs.exfat(8) System Manager's Manual mkfs.exfat(8)
NAME mkfs.exfat - create an exFAT filesystem SYNOPSIS mkfs.exfat… -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 2021-10-29 5:48 p.m., Felix Miata wrote:
Can exFAT be formatted in openSUSE? # inxi -Sy System: Host: 00srv Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.92-default x86_64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/0 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.2 # man exfat mkfs.exfat(8) System Manager's Manual mkfs.exfat(8)
NAME mkfs.exfat - create an exFAT filesystem
SYNOPSIS mkfs.exfat…
How would you do that in Yast,?
On 30/10/2021 02.53, James Knott wrote:
On 2021-10-29 5:48 p.m., Felix Miata wrote:
Can exFAT be formatted in openSUSE? # inxi -Sy System: Host: 00srv Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.92-default x86_64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/0 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.2 # man exfat mkfs.exfat(8) System Manager's Manual mkfs.exfat(8)
NAME mkfs.exfat - create an exFAT filesystem
SYNOPSIS mkfs.exfat…
How would you do that in Yast,?
You don't :-) Maybe gparted will, I don't remember. -- Saludos/Cheers Carlos E. R.
* James Knott <james.knott@jknott.net> [10-29-21 17:26]:
On 2021-10-29 5:03 p.m., Felix Miata wrote:
Media files are often larger than FAT32's maximum file size of 4GB-1. Could this be what's really going wrong? ExFAT has no 4GB-1 limit.
Can exFAT be formatted in openSUSE? IIRC, it wants to do FAT32 on larger drives/partition. When I format exFAT, I boot my ThinkPad into Windows and format there.
a simple google search, https://betanews.com/2020/03/09/linux-kernel-5-7-exfat-driver/ -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... all things are as they were then, but were you there?
On 10/29/21 5:03 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Douglas McGarrett composed on 2021-10-29 16:32 (UTC-0400):
After it copies about 5 files, it will not copy any more. Directory shows 14 MiB on the disk. (I have previously cleared the flash with gParted and told it to be fat32 FOUND PROBLEM: One of the filenames had a colon (:) in it, and the copy routine could not get past that. All is fine now. Sorry to have bothered you! Using ntfs file system now and redid filename without : --I should know better! (This is not something I do frequently!) Thanx for all replies. --doug
Media files are often larger than FAT32's maximum file size of 4GB-1. Could this be what's really going wrong? ExFAT has no 4GB-1 limit.
Another possible problem is sloth. It may be that the real problem is backlog due to slow I/O if a USB2 stick, and/or USB2 port.
On 30/10/2021 00.32, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 10/29/21 5:03 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Douglas McGarrett composed on 2021-10-29 16:32 (UTC-0400):
After it copies about 5 files, it will not copy any more. Directory shows 14 MiB on the disk. (I have previously cleared the flash with gParted and told it to be fat32 FOUND PROBLEM: One of the filenames had a colon (:) in it, and the copy routine could not get past that.
The colon is not a valid char in a _windows_ filesystem. -- Saludos/Cheers Carlos E. R.
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