I am needing to transfer a singular file of roughly 4.8GB from Linux Mint onto a thumb drive, so that I can transfer it to my Windows install on a separate partition on the same PC. However, it has repeatedly failed after 4.3GB, with an error message reading “Error splicing file: File too large”.

How do I fix this issue, or get around it? I need that file moved.

EDIT: This issue has been resolved. It was caused by the thumb drive being formatted as MSdos, reformatting it to exfat seems to have done the trick. Just used right-click “format” on linux mint, no need for console or booting up windows.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Is this a FAT32 formatted stick? FAT32 by default only supports 4GiB file size.

    If you format this with exFat or NTFS (to use in Windows) you should be able to transfer it.

    But why not just mount your Windows partition in Linux and copy the file over? Make sure to disable fast boot when you’re doing this so the file system is clean when you shut down Windows.