mkisofs and large files

[RW]

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 17:42, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:08:12 +0000, RW
>
> <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com> wrote:
> > I've been trying to burn a single large file (a 4.2 GB encrypted gbde
> > filesystem within a file) to a DVD, but mkisofs tells me the file is too
> > large.
> >
> > I looked on Google and found that mkisofs had a filesize  limit of 2 GB,
> > but this was increased to 4 GB, so I dropped the filesize to 4095 MB, but
> > it still failed, so I guess the version in ports still has the 2 GB
> > limits.
>
> The mkisofs of sysutils/cdrtools has the 2 GB limitation; the mkisofs
> installed by sysutils/cdrtools-devel does not.
>...
> But, I would issue a big caveat about what you are proposing to do: you
> may be able to burn the DVD, but it is likely that you will not be able
> to access the large (> 2 GB) file under FreeBSD from the burned disc.

Ah, you're right df reports the size correctly, but nothing else works.