Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Backup of a partition with compression

2005-05-18 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Now I'm at a loss. I tried using the streaming mode of growisofs/mkisofs; that works insofar as I don't get error messages, but the file on the DVD cannot be read later (as it is 2 GB, I assume). What actually happens? What commands did you use? Are you compressing the whole partition, or a

Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Backup of a partition with compression

2005-05-18 Thread Derrell . Lipman
Ekkehard Kraemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I use growisofs to supply my own stream of data without an ISO FS being created? The -Z option can take a special x=y parameter which means write y (any arbitrary pre-mastered image) to device x. You may be able to use standard input as y like

[Dvdrtools-users] Re: Backup of a partition with compression

2005-05-18 Thread Bryan J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] What actually happens? What commands did you use? Are you compressing the whole partition, or a tar file of the files of the partition? Tar had issues on POSIX32 systems with files greater than 2GiB until verison 1.14. But if one is streaming (piping to

Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Backup of a partition with compression

2005-05-18 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
On Wed, 18 May 2005 05:36:32 +0200, Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What actually happens? What commands did you use? Sorry, can't reproduce the actual command now, but nothing fancy; roughly gzip /dev/hd.. | growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -stream-media-size= What happened was that the DVD