Burning DVD with files>4GB from console
David Kelly
dkelly at hiwaay.net
Thu Dec 4 08:11:49 PST 2008
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Bartosz Stec wrote:
> My backup script split filesystem dumps to files with size of 4,37 GB (4
> 588 544 kB). It's just an optimal size to fill out DVDs. At this moment
> I have to burn them from windows via smb-link becuase I didn't manage to
> do this task from FreeBSD console due to 2GB/4GB filesize restrictions
> (growisofs).
Since when did FreeBSD (or growisofs) have a 2GB/4GB filesize limit? I
have burned 4.3GB DVDs several times.
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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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