Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> Tony Nelson wrote: >>> The problem is the size of root.star. There is a 2 GiB limit for files in >>> a ISO9660 filesystem (and the workaround reportedly does not work in >>> general). Probably star's tsize option is needed, to split the backup into >>> 1 or 2 GiB "tapes". >> Yeah, I'm trying it now with a 4GB and a 3.5GB files. I'll let you know >> in a couple of hours whether or not it worked.... I should be able to >> cat them back together and read the .star table of contents..... > > Nope, no go. K3B put them in the project, but I couldn't get them burned: > I had a warning about file sizes > 2GB required UDF to work right. OK, > I checked the UDF structures box. > Then it complained that more than 1/2 of the disk was being wasted. I > guess it still didn't like the 4GB file (exactly 4GB in size). > > So, now I'm re-splitting the file again, this time I'm using 2047MB > chunks. I should end up with 4 files, each < 2GB in size. Its probably > going to take long time to finish the split again (only 41MB in the > first 10 minutes. sigh) Yeup, took more than 24 hours to run split on the file again. The net result was 4 files, and K3B is burning it to my Double Layer DVD+R right now. 7.5GB total space in 4 files, all less then 2GB in size each. This is also going to take a while, so I think I'll go to bed, and look at the results tomorrow, and see if I can get the table of contents off the DVD after "cat"ing the files back together. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
