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Re: What options should I have for files bigger than 2G ? (cdrecord and mkisofs)



On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:24:13PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

Hello,

> Does that mean that program md5sum verifies
> the file underneath /mnt but Mplayer still
> refuses to work properly with it ?

Well, I guess so.

> After installing it, there should be
> a command xorrisofs which would work
> instead of mkisofs in the script you
> posted a few days ago.
> (As said: for the case without -dvd-video) 
> 
> Or in xorriso's own personality and notation:
>   target=/dev/sr1
>   xorriso \
>     -outdev "$target" -blank as_needed \
>     -joliet on -follow on -pathspecs on \
>     -volid "$1" -add $2 -- \
>     -fs 128m -close on
> 
> /dev/sr1 has to offer rw-permissions.
> There is no further need to be superuser
> in order to operate the burner drive.
> 
> You may as well use a regular file as target:
>   target=/tmp/testimage.iso
>   xorriso ...same.as.above...
> 
> (I advise reduce the fifo size to 128 MB.
>  1000 MB seems oversized.)

Normally I pipe the creation of the image, and as I got 4Gb of RAM I
feel better with a really large cache (I wrote at 16x).

I'll try sometimes xorriso to see if that work here also, thank you very
much,
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