"ERROR: write error, disk full? " caused by ... big ISO-file on FAT-partition :-
Posted: December 14th, 2008, 3:39 pm
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.
Unrarring a second time resulted in a more helpful message (or I was just looking closer this time):
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 ...
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 rUnrarring 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 largeSo: 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 ...