Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

On Friday 04 July 2008, Dale wrote:
> Sebastian Günther wrote:
> > * Dale (dalek1967@bellsouth.net) [04.07.08 05:25]:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> After getting the mailing list working I did some techy
> >> shopping.  I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large
> >> files.  I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my data.  K3b
> >> gives me a error saying the file is to large.  I did some
> >> googling and searched around on the forums, even posted on one
> >> thread, but I can not figure out how to get this thing to burn.
> >> Will it just not burn large files or what?
> >
> > How big is the tarball?
> > # ls -lh <tarball>
> >
> > Check if you have set the Medium size correctly in K3b. Maybe you
> > try to burn it on a CD...
> >
> >> root@smoker / # equery list cdr
> >> * installed packages
> >> [I--] [  ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.2 (0)
> >> [I--] [  ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.6 (0)
> >> root@smoker / #
> >
> > To be faster than Jörg:
> >
> > He will advise you to unmerge cdrkit and merge cdrtools, but
> > first please look for the size of the tarball and the options set
> > in K3b
> >
> >> root@smoker / # emerge -vp k3b
> >
> > HTH
> > Sebastian
>
> I did set it to write to the DVD.  The tarball is about 4Gbs or so.
>  It should fit on the DVD with no problems. 

4GB is about the limit. Please give the exact size.

Uwe

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