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.

  • Bob
    17•4 months ago

    Did you check that the drive is not formatted using Fat32? It has a file size limit of 4GB. What leads me to think this is the issue is 4GiB (Gibibytes) equals 4.295GB, which when rounded equals 4.3GB.

    If the drive has nothing important on it, I would suggest you format it to something like exFat.

  • HorseChandelier
    3•4 months ago

    Why not mount your windows partition in Linux and copy it over? OK, problematic if you have bitlockered your windows partition… But in all other use cases I can’t see a problem.