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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