DVD size dls - not enough disk space errs w/ 400 gigs of empty space

[ianfer]

DVD size dls - not enough disk space errs w/ 400 gigs of empty space

it's kinda wierd. i can download anything up to 2 gigs, but if i try to dl a dvd size something or other, it gives me: error: not enough space on the disk

the empty space is 400 gigs and every torrent i have completely full back to back wouldnt take up anywhere near that.

the drive is only used for torrent downloads...period.

anyone have this prob?

thanks in advance.

[GTHK]

What filesystem is on the drive? FAT32 has an ~4 GiB limit. (Right-click the drive > Properties).

[hermanm]

That's odd you have a 2GB file size limit. Sometimes that's an arbitrary limit placed by software applications, but on a file system level only file system that limits files to 2GB is FAT16. I would find it hard to you'd be running FAT16 these days.

More detail here: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

[Firon]

You have to convert the drive to NTFS.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

[ianfer]

hmm. this drive worked ok using abc bittorrent client, but when i changed to microtorrent, the torrents that were dling fine in abc came up with this error.

nothing changed except the torrent client (same drive, same torrents, etc).

microtorrent seems to have alot more features, i'd hate to have to switch back.

[GTHK]

Filesystem?

[Firon]

If it's telling you lack of space, it's not related to the client. It's a filesystem limitation.

Clients can't work around it.

[ianfer]

hmm. dunno why abc was able to run the same torrents that microtorrent cant.

apparently, its only the full size isos that it chokes on...maybe abc client just ignores the error and downloads?

couldnt seem to find anything in prefs that could maybe override this.

is there maybe a hack i can do to get it bulldoze through?

i would reformat drive for ntfs (presently fat32), but ive got this huge collection of partial and full torrents that i'd have to dump to do it (nowhere to backup 100 gigs of files).

thanks for the replies, btw.

[DreadWingKnight]

ABC will choke when you've downloaded 4gb of the file because of how the disk space allocation differs. No there is not a hack to force things.

[ianfer]

i swear, abc downloaded atleast 50 4.5 gig and 7 gig iso files for me.

i've dled em, ive burned em.

[DreadWingKnight]

Not to a FAT32 drive unless the dvd ISOs were pre-split. the 4GB per-file limit is filesystem level. No application can avoid it.