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Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Burning a DVD with > 2GB files
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Greg Madden |
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Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Burning a DVD with > 2GB files |
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Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:08:45 -0900 |
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On Saturday 18 January 2003 09:30 pm, Scott Talbert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have finally been able to get my Sony DRU-500A with cdrecord-ProDVD 2.0
> which just came out recently. (Previous versions of ProDVD and version
> 0.1.2 of dvdrecord do not work for me.)
>
> Anyway, I want to use my DVD recorder to make backups of my system. My
> method is to tar and gzip my files, mkisofs them, and then record to DVD.
> Unfortunately, my plan caused me to run into the 2GB file size limitation
> of mkisofs (my tar.gz files are > 2GB). So I cannot burn them to DVD.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how I can get around this limitation?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Scott Talbert
I wasn't aware there is a 2gb limitation. The only 2gb limitation I recall was
one due to the 2.2.x kernel series in GNU/Linux, fixed in the 2.4.x series. I
suppose it depends on what OS you are using.
--
Greg Madden
- [Dvdrtools-users] Burning a DVD with > 2GB files, Scott Talbert, 2003/01/19
- Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Burning a DVD with > 2GB files,
Greg Madden <=
- Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Burning a DVD with > 2GB files, Scott Talbert, 2003/01/19
- Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Burning a DVD with > 2GB files, André Dalle, 2003/01/19
- [Dvdrtools-users] Re: Burning a DVD with > 2GB files -- What files are you'all burning >2GB???, Bryan J. Smith, 2003/01/19
- Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Re: Burning a DVD with > 2GB files -- What files are you'all burning >2GB???, Sean, 2003/01/19
- Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Re: Burning a DVD with > 2GB files -- What files are you'all burning >2GB???, Bryan J. Smith, 2003/01/19
- Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Re: Burning a DVD with > 2GB files -- What files are you'all burning >2GB???, Robert M. Stockmann, 2003/01/19
- Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Re: Burning a DVD with > 2GB files -- What files are you'all burning >2GB???, Sean, 2003/01/19