File Exceeds filesystem size limit

TadH

Canada1846 Posts

July 23 2011 23:53 GMT

I have a 128 GB SSD (C:\) installed with 20 GB free.

Yesterday I purchased another 1TB external HDD. It now has 900 GB free from 930.

I've changed my settings in utorrent, to put downloads into my 1TB HDD (F:\)

Currently I'm downloading a 17 GB file and I'm also trying to download a second 6.5 GB file,

The 6.5 GB file gives me the following message: ERROR: File Exceeds filesystem size limit

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I've downloaded several things since yesterday and put roughly 25 GB's on my new hard drive, but this movie won't download. And I've run out of ideas.

Please help.

Amui

Canada10567 Posts

July 23 2011 23:58 GMT

Check to see if your harddrive is formatted in NTFS. If it's FAT32 it doesn't support a single file that is bigger than 4gb..

To check rightclick properties -> file system: XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Medrea

10003 Posts

July 23 2011 23:59 GMT

External hard drives have this issue because they are FAT32 and that is a limitation of FAT32 filesystem.

Medrea

10003 Posts

July 23 2011 23:59 GMT

On July 24 2011 08:58 Amui wrote:
Check to see if your harddrive is formatted in NTFS. If it's FAT32 it doesn't support a single file that is bigger than 4gb..

To check rightclick properties -> file system: XXXXXXXXXXXXX

tech advice synced up.

TadH

Canada1846 Posts

July 24 2011 00:00 GMT

It is indeed FAT32. HOWEVER the 17GB file is downloading to it, as we speak. Is that because it is like 30 separate 300~500mb files?

Myrmidon

United States9452 Posts

July 24 2011 00:11 GMT

On July 24 2011 09:00 TadH wrote:
It is indeed FAT32. HOWEVER the 17GB file is downloading to it, as we speak. Is that because it is like 30 separate 300~500mb files?

I'm not sure what you mean here. The whole thing is a single file, or not? If the 17GB of data is comprised of separate files, each no greater than 4GB, then that's the expected behavior. The issue is any single file with a size larger than 4GB.

Anyway, you can just reformat your external drive to NTFS (obviously save the data elsewhere before doing so) so long as you don't need to use it later on a system without NTFS support.

TadH

Canada1846 Posts

July 24 2011 00:12 GMT

I don't know how to be more clear. The 17 GB file is comprised of multiple files all less then 4GB, I was just confirming my own suspicion.

Thanks for the help.

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