Solved! how do you get around the 4GB limit on USB drives?

[Red Squirrel]

In Linux I would just format the USB to ext4... but in Windows you have to use fat32. I am trying to copy a single large file to a USB stick that will be used in a Windows machine and forgot about this limitation...

How does one work around it?

 

[Micrornd]

Format the USB as NTSF

 

[quikah]

You can format as exFAT also which has a bit more compatibility than NTFS.

 

[mxnerd]

exFAT is not natively supported until kernel 5.4

How to Mount and Use an exFAT Drive on Ubuntu Linux

Mount and Use an exFAT Drive on Ubuntu Linux

This quick tutorial shows you how to enable exFAT file system support on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions. This way you won’t see any error while mounting exFAT drives on your system.

itsfoss.com

(GNOME) Disks utility works after

sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

But GParted does not.

 

[TheELF]

Also if you are really limited to a small file size by some other reason, HJsplit is a great way to easily split and rejoin files.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh right forgot they could handle NTFS, was able to use mkfs.ntfs and it worked.