Hi, [email protected] wrote: > HDD connected by USB. > I contemplate Gparted deleting the FAT part. Any disadvantage there?
No. If you want to use the whole drive as storage medium for xorriso, then the xorriso -blank command will erase the partition table anyways. If the partition table type is GPT, you could erase the backup table at the end of the device, too, so that no partition editor feels encouraged to restore the GPT form this backup: dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 seek=244193291 count=1 of=/dev/sdX with the usual warning not to write to the wrong /dev/sdX. nwe wrote: > If in fact your iso file is much over 4GB in size and you're trying to write > to FAT32 media, you will get "exceeds free space" errors due to the FAT32 > file size limitation. I assume that Peter wants to use the plain unpartitioned device as storage. The filesystem will be ISO 9660, updated by add-on sessions from time to time. 500 merchant's GB is enough room for a lot of updates. The limit with xorriso-1.5.6 is 4 TiB. Upcoming xorriso-1.5.8 will support the theoretical maximum of 8 TiB. Of course one could replace the FAT filesystem with one which can deal with large files. Then a data file in that filesystem could serve as storage medium of xorriso. Like mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/ext xorriso -for_backup -dev /mnt/ext/big_backup.iso -update_r ... Have a nice day :) Thomas
