Patrick Doyle <wpdster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a 6.5 Gbyte tarball that I want to archive on a dual layer DVD.
Unfortunately, I don't have a dual-layer writer on my PC, however, I
do have access to another (Windows) PC that _does_ have a dual-layer
writer.
Don't know if this helps, but... A friend of mine suggests that you use Win
RAR instead of a tarball and have it split the volume, then you can save it
on a single layer DVD.
Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the image I wish to back
up is the former contents of a 20 Gbyte reiserfs partition (of which
15 Gbytes were used). I don't believe that Win RAR will support
reading a Linux reiserfs partition, nor do I expect it will handle
things like symbolic links, device nodes, etc... But I'll check it
out nonetheless.
--wpd
