mysqldump stops at 4GB I'm trying to dump a MySQL (5.7) database of a about 150 GB, out of which most data (about 90 GB) is in a single table. I tried using MySQL Workbench (6.3) to do this through the GUI. The process starts, and most tables finish, but the big ones eventually fail.

I got recommended to use the commandline tool mysqldump.exe instead, and I tried that. This seems to work, but also eventually fails on the big tables, and reports:

mysqldump: Got Errno 28 on write


I'm trying to dump to an external drive with plenty of space. 

One curious thing, is the failure always seems to happen exactly when the file in question hits 4 GB (or 3,99GB). I've tried looking around for this, but no luck! 

I'm running Windows 10, 64-bit, mysqldump is 64-bit, I have 16 GB of RAM in the system. I don't feel like I should hit any 4 GB limits, but I'm probably missing something very basic?

Hope you guys can help me out!

The command in running to do the dump looks like this:

mysqldump -t -u root -p [database] [table] &gt; J:\table_name.sql
The file size limit for a FAT32 filesystem is 4 Gigabytes. You will be hitting this limit.