John Summerfield wrote: > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> John Summerfield wrote: >> > >> >> Which is *NOT* what I said. The files in a DVD filesystem cannot be >> > > I misunderstood your plain english. > >> >>> Actually, one can burn any kind of file to DVD. Even a tarball. >> >> Not tarballs >= 2GB. I've had to use "split" to reduce them to >> something < 2GB in size and write the individual split files into an ISO >> image that can then be burned. Which means I have to use "cat" to >> re-read them back into the original large file when I want to access it. >> a real PITA. >> > This should work, I accudently did something akin to that with a CD some > years ago. > > growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=big.tar Last time I tried it, I got an error from mkisofs complaining about the file being bigger than 2GB. Has growisofs changed to not use mkisofs? My research into the ISO filesystem showed that the filesize is a 32 bit field in the filesystem data structures. Has the system been revisioned to now work? > as will burning an ext2 filesystem in a file. Never tried that. But I routinely keep large ISO images on my hard drives. Never tried burning an non-iso fs to a CD/DVD. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
