Re: a question on pipes and growisofs

["Paul Serice" <paul@serice.net>]

> Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>
> So, I want to be able to "tar -cf file.tar /mnt/sda4" and "growisofs
> -Z /dev/dvd/ -udf file.tar". I guess that to be able to do it, I
> should use a pipe, but I don't know how to do it.
>
> I use UDF as disc format since the resulting file is bigger than 2GB
> (and it seems that the Linux implementation of ISO 9660 limits the
> file size in 2GB). I would like to be able to mount the disc and
> find one .tar file.

Take a look at

    flyisofs

which can be found at

    http://www.serice.net/shunt/

It splits on the fly, and IIRC, each file can be up to 4GB.
The file names it generates might not be to your liking however.


Paul Serice