Overcoming the 2GB limit in writing a dvd iso to disk

[Mogens Kjaer]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
...
> I just went through this on FC5.  What I discovered was, you *can* burn
> an image of 4.7GB or 8GB in size, but none of the files in that image
> can exceed 2GB in size (this seems to be a mkisofs limitation). 

It is not a limitation in mkisofs, but rather a limitation
in the iso9660 filesystem itself.

Mogens

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