4GB file Limit

I have an iPod classic with 30GB. My music takes up about 6GB. I want to use the rest of the drive as a backup for the important files on my PC, The backup is about 15GB in size. When I try to backup to a directory on my iPod the backup always fails at a few bytes short of 4GB. I have see various references to a 4GB file limit but didn't see any conformation that such a limit exists.
I'd like to know
1)Is there a limit to the size of individual files on an iPod?
2)Is there a way to remove this seemingly arbitrary limit?
Thanks,
Ron MacRae

Is there a limit to the size of individual files on an iPod?
Yes, 4GB. See:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131 (bottom of page)
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It's a FAT32 file system limitation and cannot be removed.

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