Re: Narrowing down problem source - was [Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?]
Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>I started over again. I switched to a laptop dedicated to things
>that may not work as expected. For some of my projects I
>regularly wipe the disk and do a complete reinstall of Debian.
>Currently I'm running Debian 8.0 with Mate as DE. No updates.
>
>I used
> blocks=$(expr $(/sbin/isosize /dev/sr0) / 2048)
> echo "Byte count: $(expr $blocks '*' 2048)"
> dd if=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 count=$blocks of=dvd8_2.iso
>as a pattern for each DVD.
>
>_Some_ passed your test of
> ls -l /media/richard/Lexar/dvd8_2.iso
> /sbin/isosize /media/richard/Lexar/dvd8_2.iso
>
>Example:
> ls -l dvd8_9.iso
> /sbin/isosize dvd8_9.iso
>
>resulted in
>richard@debian:~$ ls -l dvd8_9.iso
>-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard 3976200192 Sep 16 11:50 dvd8_9.iso
>richard@debian:~$
>richard@debian:~$ /sbin/isosize dvd8_9.iso
>4460664832
I'll tell you what's most likely wrong - you're storing your extracted
ISO images on a FAT32 filesystem which doesn't support file sizes
larger than 4GiB. That's why DVD #1 works, it's explicitly reduced in
size to fit on a 4GB USB stick too.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast."
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