Hello everyone,

I use KTorrent 2.2.8 in KDE 3.5.10 on Debian 5.0/Lenny (32-bit).

I'm using a .torrent file (22 KB) to try and download a file (4.26 GB).
The window "Select which file you want to download" confirms I have 14.3 GB free on the 22 GB partition, and tells me I will remain with some 10 GB after download. So far so good.
However when I click "OK" I get the following message:
"Has been stopped with the following error: cannot preallocate diskspace: Argument invalide"

Further information:
- The above named partition, used for storing .torrent files and downloads is fat32.
- The /home/user partition is ext3 but only has 500 MB free (as temporary files are stored there ["general options"], could that be the problem?)
- I read that activating the setting ["Advanced options"] "Disable disk preallocation" would help: is that right considering my above system configuration (and the little free space on the /home/user partition)?

Please ask if you need furhter information.

Thanks a lot for your help

ludo

Hello,
as I know KTorrent 2.2.8 is deprecated. Please consider to update it

Hello everyone,

Well I'd very much like not to change anything to my Debian distribution as it is.
KTorrent 2.2.8 is the standard in Lenny, and I'd love to stick to that! Stability as well as time are binding factors in my case.

Thanks for any help anyway.

Best regards.

ludo

What file system are you downloading to ? Invalid argument errors in preallocation can only happen if the size passed is negative (KT should prevent this from happening) or larger then the file system can handle.

Hello everyone,
Hello George,

and thanks for your reply.

As I wrote in my first post, the partition I use for storing .torrent files and downloads is fat32 and it is 22 GB (twenty two gigabytes).
As I also mentioned, I was trying to download a 4.3 GB file.
Although I believe I read somewhere the maximum size for files on fat32 is 4GB, the fact is that when I first tried to download the file some three months ago, there was no mention by ktorrent of any such problem as now...
The thing is, neither then nor these past few days did I manage to download the file - nothing got going: I suspect the torrent or even the file are not valid any more...
I think I'll have to try it with some other large file... or I must change the file system to ext3...
What would you advise?

Thanks

ludo

Yes FAT32 has 4GB limits, ran into it myself a couple of months ago when I was working a virtual disk which grew to large on a fat disk, the virtual machine subsequently stopped working.

You will have to change the filesystem if you want to download this.

Hello everyone,
hello George,
and thanks for your newest reply.

Yours is an interesting case which I definitely will remember as I am now discovering the usefulness (and joys) of virtualisation myself...
As I still have a few partitions yet formatted as fat32 - a remainder of a past op.sys. - (including that 22GB partition which is on my PC the working partition to BOTH ktorrent AND virtualbox... ), I more than tend to think that they will pretty soon be changed to ext3 !..

Cheers and keep it up at ktorrent (I'm a very satisfied user of it)

ludo

ludo0565 wrote:Well I'd very much like not to change anything to my Debian distribution as it is.
KTorrent 2.2.8 is the standard in Lenny, and I'd love to stick to that! Stability as well as time are binding factors in my case.

KTorrent 3.1.4 is also available in stock Lenny (ktorrent package). That's still quite old but you may want to give it a try if something goes wrong with 2.2.8.