WORKING ON A FAT32 DRIVE

Stephanie · 05-02-2001, 09:36 AM

I have a small problem I cant figure out.

I have a friends Windows drive, and he wants me copy his personal files (which are all over the place) to a CD-ROM. Now I successfully mounted the drive, and could navigate and copy everything except his mp3 folder. This is located at /windows/desktop/mp3s

For some reason, I can see them, but I cannot play them, nor copy them to a CD-ROM or to my hard disk, whether I do it one at a time or all at once.

Does anyone have any idea why, or even better, how to get around this?

trickykid · 05-02-2001, 11:02 AM

any particular error messages that you recieve? how are you trying to copy the files and where to? are you trying to copy from windows drive to your linux drive?

Stephanie · 05-03-2001, 06:24 PM

After doing some testing, I discovered that I only have problems when I try to move files larger than 1 MB in size to my Linux drive.

hazza96 · 05-03-2001, 10:00 PM

Is the windows drive mounted in the linux box or are you sharing it across the network using samba?

Does the 1M limit affect other directories or just the windows/desktop/mp3s?

Stephanie · 05-06-2001, 08:46 PM

It only affects that specific directory, and it a local drive mount.

ugge · 05-07-2001, 03:03 AM

What fs type did you mount it as?
dos
fat
vfat