mkisofs and large files

[Randy Grafton]

growisofs is your solution. It is in the dvd+r-tools port in 
/usr/pots/sysutils.
This was supposed to be a front end to mkisofs and therefore handles 
most of the options that mkisofs has.
It also allows you to burn directly to disc! (I use this one a lot, 
great for backups).

-Randy

RW wrote:

>On Wednesday 08 December 2004 17:42, Paul Mather wrote:
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>>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:08:12 +0000, RW
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>><list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com> wrote:
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>>>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.
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>
>Ah, you're right df reports the size correctly, but nothing else works.  
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