Currently, copying a 5G file to a vfat drive will first spend a lot of time copying, then give a message "error splicing file", fortunately also mentioning that the file size was too large. It'd be nice if Thunar could notice that it's copying into a vfat file system and mention *before trying* that it won't be possible to copy such a large file.
What is you Thunar version ? This bug should be fixed with Thunar 1.6.12 (#13481), please retest with this version.
I tried with 1.6.11, I'll test the new one then :)
Still happens in 1.8.x
With 1.6.15-0ubuntu1, it at least shows the warning if I "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/a count=100 bs=1M && mkfs.vfat /tmp/a && mount -t vfat /tmp/a /mnt/vfats -o uid=$USER,gid=$USER" and try copying a 200m file into it with Thunar. I don't have the original usb stick around to test with. mirh, you're testing with an actual USB stick?
Yes (and for the love of me I cannot understand what dd, nor 200 MB files, have to do with this)
The original report was about copying a file onto a vfat file system, where the file was too big to fit. The dd&&mkfs.vfat&&mount commands above make a vfat file system that's able to contain a 100M file, which is too small to fit a 200M file. The only difference is that the original report was about a USB stick.
Uh, what? Then the issue should be titled "too big to fit the disk", or something. Filesystem means a logical limitation instead, and indeed 5GB on fat32 is the typical example of this.
Ooh, right, I forgot that in between reporting and now :) So now I can also reproduce: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=5G count=5000 bs=1M $ dd if=/dev/zero of=6G count=6000 bs=1M $ mkfs.vfat 6G $ sudo mount -t vfat 6G /mnt/vfats -o uid=$USER,gid=$USER $ thunar . and try copying 5G into /mnt/vfats – it spends a while copying until it finally can't write any more, saying "error splicing file; file too large; would you like to skip". So it's not fixed, and it's easy to reproduce with the above commands.
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