Subject Re: [firebird-support] Error Not Enough Disk Space
Author Mark Rotteveel
On 24 Nov 2013 23:21:11 -0800, <trskopo@...> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a strange error message, tell me that there is not enough disk
> space while actually it is enough space.
>
> Here are the environment :
> - database size is 4 GB, running on RAM Disk formatted as FAT32, free
> space still 4 GB
> - Firebird Super Classic 2.5.2 64 bit
> - Windows 7 64 bit with 16 GB memory
>
> Is that because database running on RAM, but there is still a lot of
free
> space?
> Testing and running database on physical disk seem ok, but it is very
slow
> since don't have rapid harddisk.
>
> Please help me to solve the problem, and thanks in advance.

The file size of FAT32 is limited to 4GB (or 2^32 bytes, hence the 32 in
FAT32). You either need to upgrade to NTFS, or create your database as a
multi-file database.

Mark