From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KEj7L-0001nl-Cy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:06:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFE41E053C; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C8A4E053C for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id C294365B7 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:06:09 +0100 (WAT) Received: from mx1.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1D27FAA8 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:06:11 +0100 (WAT) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (ADSL-41-205-128-123.ipb.na [41.205.128.123]) by mx1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854645BB1 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:06:10 +0100 (WAT) From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:06:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <486D97E4.3070305@bellsouth.net> <20080704063110.GA1659@marvin.heimnetz.local> <486DD0C0.10001@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <486DD0C0.10001@bellsouth.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807041206.09839.uwix@iway.na> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4440ee29-df4a-4121-91fc-30f7308de9db X-Archives-Hash: b28158332597428a6c7b20db1ecc3547 On Friday 04 July 2008, Dale wrote: > Sebastian G=FCnther 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 > > > > 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 J=F6rg: > > > > 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.=20 4GB is about the limit. Please give the exact size. Uwe --=20 Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list