Kish Shen wrote:
Hi,
[I sent this message several hours ago from another email address, but it has
not appear yet, so
I am trying again with a different e-mail address]
I am trying to write a .ts file to a DVD+R Double Layer disk, so far without
success. The file has a size of 4613734320. I issue the command:
growisofs -Z /dev/sr1 -R -J pd
where pd is where my files are.
I get the message:
mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File pd/....ts is too large -
ignoring
and the file is not written. This is with growisofs version 7.0, and mkisofs
2.01.01a24
I updated my growisofs and mkisofs to these versions because those that came
with my Linux (growisofs: version 5.17, mkisofs: 2.01a27) does not recognise
the DVD+R DL media:
linux:/home/kish # growisofs -Z /dev/sr1 -R -J pd
:-( /dev/sr1: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 2B
My system configuration is:
OS: SuSe Linux 9.1, with kernel 2.6.11.4
DVD Writer: LG GSA 5163D
For now, I just want to write the file as a data file to the disk, so I am not
worried about DVD compatibility.
Thanks in advance for any help/information on how I can write the file to the
disk!
Cheers,
Kish
If you are concerned with backing up the data in a way which allows
recovery, I can tell you how to do that. I think the portability of any
solution to have that file on an optical media is suspect, and may not
work in some cases.
Solution #1: break into smaller files you can recover as one big file
and write to disk:
$ split -b 500000 my_huge_file hugefile.
$ mv my_huge_file some_other_dir_for_safety/
$ growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J .
To recover, mount the disk and:
cat /mnt/cdrom/hugefile.?? >file_on_disk
Solution #2 - you can play the file from DVD:
* Create an empty file of 4400MB (dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile
bs=1024k count=4400)
* Loopback mount the file (losetup /dev/loop0 bigfile)
* Put an ext2 filesystem on the device (mke2fs -b4096 -N2000 bigfile)
* Mount the device as root (mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/temp)
* Copy all of the data to the loop mount (cp -r pr /mnt/temp)
* Unmount the loop device (umount /dev/loop0)
* Now burn the disk, ext2 will hold a 4GB file (growisofs -Z
/dev/scd0=bigfile)
Do note, no option to growisofs, just the filesystem image. The only
issue with the 2nd method is that you can only mount the DVD on a Linux
system.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
