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 1KEmfi-00074h-7T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:54:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90C54E0508; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost06.isp.att.net (fmailhost06.isp.att.net [204.127.217.106]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6111EE0508 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [209.214.151.216] (host-209-214-151-216.jan.bellsouth.net[209.214.151.216]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc06) with ESMTP id <20080704145358H06009t2tce>; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:53:59 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [209.214.151.216] Message-ID: <486E3984.3040907@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:53:56 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080608 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files References: <486D97E4.3070305@bellsouth.net> <20080704063110.GA1659@marvin.heimnetz.local> <486DD0C0.10001@bellsouth.net> <486e026a.1hwbKyJAXSTtfJfk%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <486e026a.1hwbKyJAXSTtfJfk%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: dd35b1a8-627b-49a8-b566-23374bbb1687 X-Archives-Hash: e636aae5afd64b6c97c555dfb39e45e5 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Dale wrote: > > =20 >> I did set it to write to the DVD. The tarball is about 4Gbs or so. I= t=20 >> should fit on the DVD with no problems. I tried a lot of different=20 >> settings tho. Still no joy. >> >> I don't think that file will fit on a CD. LOL=20 >> =20 > > As this is an extension to what the basic compatibility mode allows, yo= u of=20 > course need to _allow_ mkisofs to write files larger than 4 GB. > > See the mkisofs man page ------> you need iso-level 3 or 4. > > J=F6rg > > =20 I did try level 3 and still no joy. Also tried UDF or something and no j= oy. I got Kbackup to make 1Gb tarballs and it still does not burn. I got=20 something like this: umount: /media/hdd is not in the fstab So, I added it to fstab and it is burning away. I will try large files=20 next and see just how big I can get. Plan to try the 4Gb sucker just=20 out of curiosity if nothing else.=20 I thought you didn't need fstab entries for CD/DVD stuff? O_O Thanks for the help tho. Learned something new. Dale :-) :-) --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list