DVD burning - mkisofs max size allowed

[A. Lanza]

El jue, 24-02-2005 a las 14:15 +0100, Alexander Spanke escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> on what kind of fs do you create this image ?

All my partitions are ext3.

> 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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