>From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Yesterday i lost a 2,3 GB big file because mkisofs "silently" skipped it.
>mkisofs ... $dir && rm -rf $dir
>I had the luck that i can reget that file. But next time it's possibel
>that i'm not so lucky. So it would be best to "die" instead of a "silent"
>warning that a file was skipped. (At least as a commandline-option.
>Something like the "Make warnings to errors" from compilers (this can be
>especially usefull for scripts where the warnings aren't seen (Today i saw
>the warning because i was watching the process today)). Or a special
>option "die when files are too big")
mkisofs definitey does not skip those files silently!
It prints: "File %s is too large - ignoring\n"
It is not possible to put files > 2 GB into a ISO-9660 fs.
J�rg
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