How to create a DVD image with very large files?

[Robin Laing]

Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a 6.5 Gbyte tarball that I want to archive on a dual layer DVD.
>>> Unfortunately, I don't have a dual-layer writer on my PC, however, I
>>> do have access to another (Windows) PC that _does_ have a dual-layer
>>> writer.
>>
>> Don't know if this helps, but... A friend of mine suggests that you 
>> use Win
>> RAR instead of a tarball and have it split the volume, then you can 
>> save it
>> on a single layer DVD.
> 
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, the image I wish to back
> up is the former contents of a 20 Gbyte reiserfs partition (of which
> 15 Gbytes were used).  I don't believe that Win RAR will support
> reading a Linux reiserfs partition, nor do I expect it will handle
> things like symbolic links, device nodes, etc...  But I'll check it
> out nonetheless.
> 
> --wpd
> 

Then use Linux RAR to split the *.tar file.

I got my copy from DRIES for FC4.

rar-3.5.1-1.2.fc4.rf

You could also create par2 files for recovery if you need to ensure that 
this data is saved.

par2cmdline-0.4-10.fc4

-- 
Robin Laing