John Summerfield wrote: > Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> John Summerfield wrote: >>> Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >>>> Tony Nelson wrote: >>>>> At 6:26 PM -0500 11/19/07, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >>>>> ... >>>>>> While the drives are capable of holding 8GB of data, the >>>>>> filesystem is >>>>>> *still* not capable of holding a file >= 2GB. This is usually not a >>>>>> problem when writing video onto these drives as the VOB filesize is < >>>>>> 2GB anyways. When using them to write backups of large files, games >>>>>> must be played to get the data to fit. >>>>> Why use a filesystem? I just put a tar archive directly on the media. >>>>> Growisofs doesn't care what file you burn. >>>> Uh, yes, it does. It creates an ISO fs containing the file(s) you want >>>> burnt, and the ISO fs is where the 2GB filesize limit is. >>> It doesn't insist on it, see the man page: >>> To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD: >>> >>> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso >> >> We're still talking apples and oranges here. You keep talking about >> writing ISO filesystems that are already built. I keep talking about > > Now you're misunderstanding plain English! By golly, you're right I am. What you are saying (that I didn't understand the first time I read it) was that using this syntax, you don't actually need to give it an ISO file, any old file will do. > That example is from the man page. The fact it contains a prebuilt ISO > filesystem is immaterial, it's a file and growisofs is just writing a > file to the DVD, doing no processing and not (AFAIK) verifying it's an > ISO image. To me, that wasn't clear from the man page. I assumed that it actually required an ISO file and wouldn't work without one. So, I never tried it without one. > If that does not work (and I think that improbable), try a DVD-capable > cdrecord. > > The "=" is important. Without it, I would expect growisofs to wrap the > file into an isofs. Yes, that is what the man page says. So, I guess we can stop arguing now and agree to agree. B^) -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
