"ERROR: write error, disk full? " caused by ... big ISO-file on FAT-partition :-

[sander]

Not really a bug, but probably useful for others to know:

SAB was reporting "ERROR: write error, disk full? " in the unrar phase of a download.

I didn't understand this; there was 750 GB free space.

Even unrarring by hand (unrar x ...) at first resulted in the same error message.

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...         DVD_2.ISO                                                 96%
Write error in the file DVD_2.ISO [R]etry, [A]bort r                     

Write error in the file DVD_2.ISO [R]etry, [A]bort r

Unrarring a second time resulted in a more helpful message (or I was just looking closer this time):

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Extracting from blabla-DVD-blabla.part084.rar

...         DVD_2.ISO                                                 96%
Write error in the file DVD_2.ISO [R]etry, [A]bort
Write error in the file DVD_2.ISO
Program aborted

File too large

Aha: File too large

So: root cause was that I was trying to unrar a 4+ GB .ISO file on a FAT partition, which can't be done.

Solution: unrar file onto a ext2/ext3 or NTFS partition ...