Ticket #2351 (new defect) — at Version 4

Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

mc should warn prior to attempting to copy a file >4 GB to vfat partition instead of crashing

Reported by: zaytsev Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: Future Releases
Component: mc-core Version: master
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Branch state: no branch Votes for changeset:

Description (last modified by zaytsev) (diff)

Forwarded from Ubuntu:

I am aware of the fact, that vfat is unable to handle such 
large files. Is it possible to check this before copying 
and present a warning to the user?

​https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mc/+bug/78182

P.S. It would be also great to check free space on the target volume in general before copying.

Change History

Changed 14 years ago by zaytsev

core dump

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by zaytsev

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by andrew_b

  • Branch state set to no branch
  • Milestone changed from 4.7 to Future Releases

comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by andrew_b

Ticket #4199 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by zaytsev

  • Description modified (diff)
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