What's The Limit

[Pete Huckelba]

Gene Poole wrote:
> I've got one of my machines off-line so I can do a fresh install of Fedora
> Core 6.  I needed to save most of the data on the hard drives off to DVD so
> I can re-partition.  To save space I've done tar gzip on specific branches
> of my tree that I needed to save. There is one branch in my tree is
> approximately 12.8 GB in size.  So I tar gzipped the tree and it came to
> about 7.3 GB. So I started burning a dual-layer DVD for this file and
> that's when I learned that K3b (I use KDE for my desktop) won't copy a file
> larger than 4 GB.
> 
> Using K3b, can I create a ISO image for a dual-layer DVD that contains a
> file larger than 4GB, then burn that ISO image to DVD?
> 
> Does anyone know another way?  I can un-tar the file and try to create
> several tar files that are smaller than 4 GB.  But, shouldn't I be able to
> process a single file larger than 4 GB?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gene Poole
> 


Not long ago, I had issues with growisofs/mkisofs being able to handle 
files larger than 2GB.  Just make your tarballs with:

tar czf - <filename>.tar.gz | split -b 2047m - <files to tar>

That creates a nice pile of ~2.0GB files named <filename>.tar.gz.a? that 
you should be able to handle.

-Pete