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

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