DVD burning - mkisofs max size allowed
Alexander Spanke
aspanke at hpce.nec.com
Thu Feb 24 13:15:50 UTC 2005
Hi,
on what kind of fs do you create this image ?
Cheers
Alex
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:12 +0100, A. Lanza wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> i'm trying to burn a DVD using k3b, as i usually do for CD burning. I'm
> using 4,7GB size DVD-R. The problem is that i cannot burn a 4,4GB. file.
> The file is exactly 4,613,704,668 bytes long.
>
> The message i get from k3b is the following:
> /usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type
> and then
> File <file> is too large - ignoring
>
> It seems like the problem is the file size, but that file should fit in
> a DVD, shouldn't it? Is there any limit in the size of files written to
> DVD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alf
>
>
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