Copying files

[Guest]

So, I was trying to copy a 4.8 Gig file from my Chromebook to a flash drive so that I could copy it from there onto my new laptop. However, for some reason, Chrome OS is limiting the file size to 4 gigs so it'll stop. By the way, they are zip files. So I would have to extract them in order to get the file size per move to be under 4 gigs. The problem there is that the stupid Intel Celeron is too slow to open the zip file. Uploading it to a cloud service and redownloading it on another computer is out of the question since my internet is wayyy too slow for that. Does anyone have any other ideas?

[Spotty]

3 minutes ago, hiitswilliam said:

So, I was trying to copy a 4.8 Gig file from my Chromebook to a flash drive so that I could copy it from there onto my new laptop. However, for some reason, Chrome OS is limiting the file size to 4 gigs so it'll stop

Reformat the flash drive in NTFS. FAT32 can't handle individual files over 4GB.

[Teddy07]

Can you split it up?

 

I know it is possible in .rar files to split a file into multiple smaller files. It will be the same file as the original once extracted. I just looked it up and it is also possible with .zip files

[tarfeef101]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

Reformat the flash drive in NTFS. FAT32 can't handle individual files over 4GB.

Um... NTFS??? He's on linux. exFAT would be more universally compatible

[BobVonBob]

1 minute ago, tarfeef101 said:

Um... NTFS??? He's on linux. exFAT would be more universally compatible

True, but everything (except Mac OS) works with NTFS anyway so it doesn't matter much.

[Spotty]

2 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

Um... NTFS??? He's on linux. exFAT would be more universally compatible

Oh, right Chrome OS. Good thinking.

[tarfeef101]

Just now, BobVonBob said:

True, but everything (except Mac OS) works with NTFS anyway so it doesn't matter much.

Yeah but do you use chromeos?? I do. As far as I know, it doesn't ship with mkfs able to create NTFS disks. he'd have to install mkfs.ntfs himself. Which is a lot more work than using a format that is actually designed for portable storage and is more likely to be supported out of the box. 

Usually people asking for help on the forums aren't the same people you could tell "just install chromebrew or linux tools, install mkfs with all the filesystems you can, then just format it with that". 

Simple solutions are good. Also why make it not work with mac, when you can make it work with anything? It's not harder to do so.

[DD_satan]

19 hours ago, hiitswilliam said:

So, I was trying to copy a 4.8 Gig file from my Chromebook to a flash drive so that I could copy it from there onto my new laptop. However, for some reason, Chrome OS is limiting the file size to 4 gigs so it'll stop. By the way, they are zip files. So I would have to extract them in order to get the file size per move to be under 4 gigs. The problem there is that the stupid Intel Celeron is too slow to open the zip file. Uploading it to a cloud service and redownloading it on another computer is out of the question since my internet is wayyy too slow for that. Does anyone have any other ideas?

make two partitions, one with 2.4 gigs , selectiong what files u need, and other 2.4 gigs for rest, thatll wrk

 

[Guest]

7 hours ago, DD_satan said:

make two partitions, one with 2.4 gigs , selectiong what files u need, and other 2.4 gigs for rest, thatll wrk

 

They are zip files.

[Pickles von Brine]

You could try using EXFAT format. It supports files larger than 4GB and works on Linux based systems like your chromebook. Use MiniPartition wizard to format it with that. 

 

Okay I didn't read you were using a chromebook. But as stated above and earlier in the thread use exFAT. Works like a charm. Though I am unsure how you would do this in ChromeOS. 

 

Edit, it looks like you may need to use another computer (like a windows machine) to format the drive for exFAT. Chrome only formats to fat32... which is stupid. 

 

Edit 2: to do any other formatting you have to put your chromebook into developer mode and use terminal to format the drive....

 

sudo su
fdisk -l
umount /dev/sdb1
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

 

Keep in mind you have to make sure you select the right disk using these commands. Sxx0 (sdb0) is the boot disk.