File Is Too Large for Destination File System

manager Sat, 01/19/2019 - 17:04

Copy files larger than 4 GB to USB drive 

To support coping files larger thank 4GB to a USB drive first format the drive as extFAT.

Format USB extFAT

Note: This can be done in place without loosing contents with 3rd party utilities.

Unable to access <usb_flashdrive_name>: 

Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /run/media/noah/<usb_flashdrive_name>: 

This is because the Fedora project cannot distribute software dealing with the exfat format.


On Fedora or Redhat add support for extFAT with the following:

yum install fuse-exfat

mount /dev/sdb1 /media

On Ubuntu add support for extFAT with the following:

sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils