Max File Size?

Troops:

In a Fat 32 system how large can a file be?
I calculate 2^32= 4,294,967,296.

But there ,must be some overhead somewhere for I doubt if it is all available. Anybody know the max size of a file? Once reached is there generally a warning issued or does it just quietly stop?

David

 

Steve:

Your leads were enough for me to settle my immediate question. I lifted this from one of the reference files

"You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition. "

The reason I asked this question is in converting a very long VHS tape to a DVD file the conversion stopped after reaching a little less than 4 GB. Now I know why this took place. Apparently I have to do the conversion in pieces for one file cannot handle the entire conversion job.

Thanks for the leads.

David