From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 19 12:14:56 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 1E87416A41C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:14:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2DC43D53 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:14:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 7506 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2005 12:14:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[83.129.58.23]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jun 2005 12:14:53 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:15:06 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: "Andrew L. Gould" Message-ID: <20050619141506.1222993f@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12:14:56 -0000 "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 -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/