On Friday February 25, 2005 11:59 am, John Wendel wrote: >>On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:12 +0100, A. Lanza wrote: > >>>i'm trying to burn a DVD using k3b, as i usually do for CD burning. I'm > >>>using 4,7GB size DVD-R. The problem is that i cannot burn a 4,4GB. file. > >>>The file is exactly 4,613,704,668 bytes long. > >>> > >>>The message i get from k3b is the following: > >>> /usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type > >>>and then > >>> File <file> is too large - ignoring <snip> > Remember that when you burn a file to a DVD, growisofs has to convert > the file to an ISO filesystem image and then burn this to the DVD. This > process is adding to the number of bytes making the image too large for > the disk. Perhaps K3B's size calculation needs some adjustment to > account for this size expansion ??? And from the growisofs man page... -overburn Normally DVD media can accommodate up to approximately 4.700.000.000 bytes (in marketing speech 4.7GB). In other words a DVD can contain about 4.377 GiB or 4482 MiB. Growisofs won't start without this option, if "overburn" condition appears to be unavoidable. -- Brian Ashe - CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/
