[Steve Monks]

In order to make some space to record the Winter Olympics in HD on the Foxsat HDR, I've recently formatted an external drive in EXT3 format using Paragon Partition Manager 8 running under Windows under the impression this would avoid the file size restrictions inherent under FAT32. This worked fine and allowed me to offload various recordings I had sat on the internal drive to make some space. As the internal drive is now once again almost full I've hit a snag.

The problem I've now encountered is, when attempting to copy the Winter Olympic recordings to the external HDD I don't get the entire recording. Viewing the file info on the PC it's managing to copy 16GB of the transport stream before giving up.

After a bit of a dig around, it transpires that the maximum file size on an EXT3 partition is governed by the block size it was formatted with, further investigation revealed that Paragon has formatted the partition with a 1K block size which equates to a maximum file size of, wait for it, 16GB!

This leads me to two questions;

1. What block size does the HDR use / support?

2. What's the easiest way to reformat my external HDD with the appropriate block size?

I'm guessing question 2 is going to lead me to some Live version of Linux such as Slax, but I'm not sure of the correct magic command line incantation to not only reformat the drive, but correctly identify it in the first place.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Steve