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[LUG] sd card file size limit

 

Hi All

Just a quick question about digital camera, file systems and file sizes.

I have a 64MB SD card and a 16GB SD card,  If inserted in to my Digital
camera, which is then set to video mode (HD) i get a maximum of about 9
mins video regardless of which card I use.

I am assuming that this is due to the file size limit on a FAT32 file
system on the card.

So I can take more than 9 mins of video, it just needs to be in chunks
of 4gb which seems to be the max file size.

I am getting this from

"FAT32 took over from FAT16 and has a maximum drive size of 2TB. Its
maximum file size is 4GB, which is why you can't copy a 5GB file to
it. Its cluster size is 4KB up to a partition of 8GB. Above 8GB the
cluster size grows up to 32kb."

quoted from

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/what-is-the-maximum-file-size-fat-fat32-ntfs-file/1663db6b-490e-4021-9e36-f7a6976ac0c0


Thanks for any clarity

Paul
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