Gene Poole wrote:
I've got one of my machines off-line so I can do a fresh install of Fedora
Core 6. I needed to save most of the data on the hard drives off to DVD so
I can re-partition. To save space I've done tar gzip on specific branches
of my tree that I needed to save. There is one branch in my tree is
approximately 12.8 GB in size. So I tar gzipped the tree and it came to
about 7.3 GB. So I started burning a dual-layer DVD for this file and
that's when I learned that K3b (I use KDE for my desktop) won't copy a file
larger than 4 GB.
Using K3b, can I create a ISO image for a dual-layer DVD that contains a
file larger than 4GB, then burn that ISO image to DVD?
Does anyone know another way? I can un-tar the file and try to create
several tar files that are smaller than 4 GB. But, shouldn't I be able to
process a single file larger than 4 GB?
Thanks,
Gene Poole
Not long ago, I had issues with growisofs/mkisofs being able to handle
files larger than 2GB. Just make your tarballs with:
tar czf - <filename>.tar.gz | split -b 2047m - <files to tar>
That creates a nice pile of ~2.0GB files named <filename>.tar.gz.a? that
you should be able to handle.
-Pete
