Traveling with a big file

[Shawn K. O'Shea]

On 11/30/06, Tech Writer <TechWtr at handspun.com> wrote:
>
>
> Does anyone know if this is a problem with settings on the FIRELITE usb
> disk, or somewhere else?  I'm using SLES-10, and a "cp" command.  I'm also
> wondering if I might be better off just making the DVD, and re-converting
> it
> to an ISO file when I get there.
>
>
USB hard drives are usually formatted with a FAT32 filesystem. FAT32 has a
4GB filesize limitation. I've needed to overcome this for personal windoze
system backups in the past and reformatted with NTFS. I don't see why you
shouldn't be able to do the same with your favorite Linux filesystem.

If you want to keep it FAT32, as it shipped, consider using zip or rar to
create a split archive file and just reassemble it on the target side.

-Shawn
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