On 2006-10-04 at 08:31:28, Mogens Kjaer <mk@xxxxxx> wrote:
Patrick Doyle wrote:
...
For some reason, this makes me think that mkisofs isn't happy with
my
6.5 Gbyte tarball.
I think this is a limitation with the ISO 9660 standard.
So a 64 bit machine, etc. etc. won't help.
Try making a UDF file system instead.
(SNIP)
I had thought it was just a 32-bit limitation, so out of curiosity I
tried it on a 64-bit system. Oops: mkisofs (x86_64) fails to make the
file. After looking at (and older version of) the code, I believe that
P. Doyle is correct.
If the UDF file system is *NOT* an option for some reason, then an
alternative would be to use split to break the tar file into multiple
(for instance just under 2GB) pieces:
split -b 2047M -d FILE.tar TAR-part.
That command line will give you output files like
TAR-part.00 TAR-part.01 ... TAR-part.## (last one).
Then make the iso and burn the DVD. When you want to access the
original tar file on the DVD, simply
cat TAR-part.* | tar xvf -
which will let you extract the archive as if it had never been split.
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