I found this a while back when I attempted to use a DVD for backups. In the end I just split the >2gig file into 2gig chunks and worked it like that.
>From memory, it was the ISO9660 standard that caused the 2gig limit, but my memory has been off in the past. If you've got a DVD+RW capable (and linux supported) drive you could probably format the disc as ext3 and then dump your large file onto it that way. Downside to this is that you won't be able to read it on many machines. -Piers. On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 23:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16 Dec, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > It looks like mkisofs has a 2GB max file size limit > > > > Surely that's your filesystem... > > No, the file is 4.2GB in size. The error message comes from mkisofs. > > : /data/cdimages/tmp; ls -l > total 4092696 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4186821632 Dec 14 23:13 cpio-bkp > > I did a Google search, and found a few other people have been > discovering this over the last year or so. I didn't see any solution > mentioned. > > There's a page that describes the UDF file format for DVDs, which states > that it's not a problem with the UDF spec, but that most software > (Windows included) can't write a file bigger than 2GB. Presumably > because they've used signed 32 bit ints in their code. > > There was one mention of someone who used dvdrecord to write a 4GB file > once. > > luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
