On Tuesday 24 Feb 2009, Jayakumar K K wrote: > > But staying inside Linux, I wanted to copy the 4.4GB image as a > > file to a DVD > > through k3b. That also failed with an error message that Files more > > than 4GB could not be copied. > > Googling for k3b 4GB file limit pointed me here -> > http://www.nabble.com/Burn-files-over-4gb--td14310162.html > > It appears that K3B defaults to the ISO filesystem which has the 4GB > limit. If you make your DVD formatted as UDF there are no such > limits.
I found this <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660> to be an interesting read - learnt something new today :) Interestingly, I am able to mount the distro DVDs (4.4GB in size) using the ISO format: $ df -H T (note the -H) Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on .... snip ... /dev/loop1 iso9660 4.6G 4.6G 0 100% /mnt/loop/openSUSE-11.1-i586 /dev/loop2 iso9660 4.7G 4.7G 0 100% /mnt/loop/openSUSE-11.1-x86_64 $df -hT (note the -h) .... snip ... /dev/loop1 iso9660 4.3G 4.3G 0 100% /mnt/loop/openSUSE-11.1-i586 /dev/loop2 iso9660 4.4G 4.4G 0 100% /mnt/loop/openSUSE-11.1-x86_64 -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
