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December 14, 2009 03:30 PM

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Flynn

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Hi Everyone I tried searching for a thread discussion for my question..but didn't have much luck.


Basically I would like to know how to overcome the 4gb file size limit on my pogo drive. I read somewhere that I can simply just format my usb drive as NTFS or EXT3 and this should overcome the problem?

Before I attempted to move all my files off the drive and reformat it I wanted to ask for advice.



Thanks in Advance.

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December 14, 2009 4:12 PM

Have you seen this thread?
http://www.pogoplugged.com/forum/thread/11554/Best-Filesystem-for-Pogoplug/?h...

Both NTFS and EXT3 will do the job. If you're a MS Windows person then NTFS is probably easier for you to work with.

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December 15, 2009 4:33 PM

Hey Flynn,

ianjb is correct - either of those, or on a Mac HFS+ (journaled or non-journaled) will allow you to have files larger than 4 gb. The size limitation is actually one of the FAT32 file system, not the Pogoplug per se.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463 - if you're curious 'You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition.'

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December 16, 2009 2:27 AM

Thanks for the replies guys.. I have reformatted my drive as NTFS since i frequently move it between my pogoplug and my windows systems.


This has resolved my problem ! :)

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