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Re: problems writing a large file to DVD+R Double Layer disk



Kish Shen <kish.shen@crosscoreop.com> wrote:

> Hi  Jörg,
>
> Again, thanks for your reply!
>
> On Monday 02 April 2007 16:43, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Kish Shen <kish.shen@crosscoreop.com> wrote:
> > >  mkisofs â??-R â??-q â??-printâ??size /master/tree
> > 
> > Why do you belkieve there is a -q option?
> > 
> > mkisofs did never have a -q option.
> > 
> This was on the man page I looked at, I copied the above example line from it. Here is some
> context for the line:
>
>        To  handle  drives  that  need to know the size of a track
>        before starting to write, first run
>
>            mkisofs  -R -q -printâ??size /master/tree

the mkisofs never did have the string "-q" not the string "/master/tree" 
inside....

But I just did fint that there is a type in the "cdrecord" man page.
Thank you for pointing me to this problem.


> > I do not understand you.
> > 
> > mkisofs will just skip the files >= 4GB and put the rest into the ISO-9660 
> > filesystem.
> > 
>
> Sorry, I meant when I use cdrecord to try to write the files in the directory. From what you
> said before, I thought this would write the file >= 4GB to the Double Layer disk:

No, it cannot write things that mkisofs did not put into the image.

> >If you have problems with double layer disks, better use the cdrecord that
> >comes with cdrtools-2.01.01a24. Note that you need to call cdrecord as root
> >or install it suid root.
>
> Have I misunderstood? I thought the above was saying I could write files >4GB (my problem)
> to Double Layer disks with cdrecord.

You did _also_ complain about a problem when writing to the media using 
growisofs. This is why I pointed you to cdrecord.




Jörg

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