From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 19 23:27:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1166616A41C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:27:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA26A43D48 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:27:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=yoda.datawok.com) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dk9CA-0007Jz-Rn; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:27:18 -0400 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Fabian Keil Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:28:06 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20050619141506.1222993f@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050619141506.1222993f@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200506191828.07064.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcbdfd116f8eaa9d6b170ea5e6670c5d2e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:27:20 -0000 On Sunday 19 June 2005 07:15 am, Fabian Keil wrote: > "Andrew L. Gould" wrote: > > I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used > > mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the > > mkisofs and growisofs process appeared to finish successfully; but > > 'ls -alh' shows the resulting file to be -514M in size when the > > DVD-R is mounted in FreeBSD 4.10. When I mount the dvd in a > > separate FreeBSD 5.4 system, ls -alh results in 'ls: > > /cdrom/pgdumpall.gz: Value too large to be stored in data type'. I > > ftp'd the original 3GB file from the FreeBSD 4.10 system to the > > FreeBSD 5.4 system. ls -alh reads the size of the original file > > correctly. > > > > Windows reads the DVD-R and shows the file size correctly. > > > > I've tried recreating the iso image using -r and -l options and > > burning the iso file with and without the -dvd-compat option; but > > the results remain the same. > > > > Any ideas or advice? > > Split your backup file before creating the iso. > > At the moment FreeBSD can't handle big files on isofs. > If I remember correctly, big means > 1 GB, but I'm not sure. > > You should still be able to extract the file with isoinfo > from the cdrtools port. > > Fabian Once I've burned the DVD, how can I rejoin the files created using the -split-output option so that I can reload the database from the dump file? The man pages for mkisofs, isoinfo and split weren't very helpful in this regard. Thanks, Andrew Gould