On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:00 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > Gene Poole wrote: > > ... 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. > > ... > > Does anyone know another way? ... > > There's no law that says the data on a CD or DVD has to be in a > particular format (iso or udf, e.g.). > > At least for CDs, I sometimes just skip making an iso containing only > one big file (my backup.tar.gz) and just use cdrecord to write the tar > file to the CD instead of a .iso. > > I read them back with something like ``tar -xvzf /dev/cdrom'' > > I'm no CD/DVD guru, so this may be something really stupid, but so far > they've all read back just fine. I don't see any reason it wouldn't work > with a DVD as well. > > Also, (GNU) tar can create multi-volume archives. Check the -M and -L > options to create multiple tar file archives of limited size for writing > to multiple CDs/DVDs. I used k3b to burn an iso that was about 7 gigs worth to a double layer Dvd with no probs. I copied a video Dvd entirely as an iso image and then burned it to the blank double layer Dvd. Piece O cake. Ric
