Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:15:06 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R Message-ID: <20050619141506.1222993f@localhost>
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"Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> 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/
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