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+1  Q: 

VMWare Windows XP session says 'insufficient disk space' for a 6 gb file but there's 14 gb free

My VMWare Windows XP session says 'insufficient disk space' to copy in a 6 gb database dump but there's more than 14 gb free :( .

It's a growable disk. It;s currently 5.5 GB in size.

Any suggestions?

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I thought the filesize limit in xp was 2gb. Or are we not talking about 1 file here?

Toad  2009-07-17 11:38:44
Only on FAT32. There are lots of people viewing DVD movies in XP :)
EFraim  2009-07-17 11:39:18
True! NTFS is only limited by volume size: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm
pianoman  2009-07-17 11:40:33
A: 

FAT32 filesystem?

EFraim  2009-07-17 11:38:48
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Is this an NTFS volume? If it's FAT, you're overrunning the limit on file size (~4GB).

Also, this may be a quirk with growable volumes... maybe try resizing? Or change the disktype to preallocated?

pianoman  2009-07-17 11:40:04
It's fat32. Stupid pre-configured vm :-( .
Alterlife  2009-07-17 11:46:53
Hahaha... sorry, can you re-format? Any way to split the db dump?
pianoman  2009-07-17 11:50:53
I was able to convert to ntfs with 'convert.exe' that ships with Windows... Took under 10 minutes:) .
Alterlife  2009-07-17 18:29:16
Sweet! (.......................more chars)
pianoman  2009-07-17 18:32:54

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