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Another Linux question
Posted on 1/20/24 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 1/20/24 at 1:20 pm
I have downloaded a linux distro on to my computer. I want to install it on a different computer. The file is a little over 4gb. When I try to copy it to a flash drive it says the file is too large. My flash drive is 16GB and is empty.
In my mind 16gb is bigger than 4gb so I should have plenty of room. How do I overcome this?
In my mind 16gb is bigger than 4gb so I should have plenty of room. How do I overcome this?
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Posted on 1/20/24 at 1:26 pm to chryso
Is your flash drive formatted FAT32? If so, there's a 4gb file size limit. You could use exFAT or NTFS to get around that.
Posted on 1/20/24 at 1:31 pm to chryso
If the existing filesystem on the flash drive is fat32 then I don't think you can put a file larger than 4gb on it.
But typically linux distros "live boot" from a flash drive, so you wouldn't just copy a file to it. Instead you would use something like balena or rufus which would take the iso file and create a bootable flash drive. This would write the whole filesystem contained within the iso onto the flash drive, destroying anything already on it.
All that said, 4gb is quite large for a linux distro, it must include a lot of bells and whistles.
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Natively, you cannot store files larger than 4 GB on a FAT file system. The 4 GB barrier is a hard limit of FAT: the file system uses a 32-bit field to store the file size in bytes, and 2^32 bytes = 4 GiB (actually, the real limit is 4 GiB minus one byte, or 4 294 967 295 bytes
But typically linux distros "live boot" from a flash drive, so you wouldn't just copy a file to it. Instead you would use something like balena or rufus which would take the iso file and create a bootable flash drive. This would write the whole filesystem contained within the iso onto the flash drive, destroying anything already on it.
All that said, 4gb is quite large for a linux distro, it must include a lot of bells and whistles.
Posted on 1/20/24 at 2:37 pm to Korkstand
This guy linux's
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