Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.20.4.10.8: File is too large
Hi Helmut,
Thank you for your response.
Ah I suspected that ! Thank you kindly for your assistance, greatly
appreciated !
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Helmut Jarausch" <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: <dave@dcdata.co.za>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.20.4.10.8: File is too large
> On 4 Aug, David Wilson wrote:
> > Hi guys/girls,
> >
> > I seem to have a problem writing a 2.7 gig tar.gz file data to a 4.7 gig
DVD disk.
> > I'm using dvd+rw-tools-5.20.4.10.8.
>
> dvd+rw-tools - as well as cdrecord - writes an iso9660 filesystem to the
> DVD. This still has a 2Gb file size limit.
> I think there is a kernel patch to be in 2.6.8 which removes this.
> Until then you have to split your large tar file into smaller parts
> and join them via cat - maybe within a pipe - when restoring data.
>
>
> Helmut Jarausch
>
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> RWTH - Aachen University
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany
>
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