growisofs and large files

Ghirai

Ghirai

It seems that growisofs refuses to burn large files (i tried to burn a 4.4GiB file).

After searching, i can across some (dated) message which suggested to use cdrtools-devel (http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/276844.html).
Is the solution still applicable? I also read that people couldn't read those files on FreeBSD after they burned them? Is that true? Any solutions?

I'm using:
Code: 
# mkisofs -v
mkisofs 2.01 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.1)

# growisofs --help
* growisofs by <appro@fy.chalmers.se>, version 7.1

# uname -mrs
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 i386

Thanks.
 
try
Code: 
$ burncd dvdrw path/to/image.iso

perhaps 4.4G is little more that dvd is capable of storing.
try burning 4.3G 4.38G iso

4.4G is about limit, that you can burn to dvd, but I can't tell you exact number (in Bytes)
 
Possible, although the file i was trying to burn is actually a DVD image.
I remember having this problem before, and i managed to burn it in Windows.

Just tried with a 3.8GiB file and it worked.
I'll try to burn the 4.4GiB one from Windows, and see if it works.

Thanks for the quick reply.
 
AFAIK, the ISO9660 filesystem has a limit of 4GB as a max size for a single file.

EDIT:
Can you try using the -iso-level 3 option using mkisofs?
 
ale said:
Can you try using the -iso-level 3 option using mkisofs?
Click to expand...

I get the same error:

Code: 
Executing 'mkisofs -J -R -iso-level 3 /c2 | builtin_dd of=/dev/pass0 obs=32k seek=0'
mkisofs: Value too large to be stored in data type. File /c2/c2.img is too large - ignoring

The file is 4681709579 bytes long.
 
killasmurf86 said:
something like that, but remember that DVD has space for 4'700'000'000 bytes
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I'm not referring to the capability of a dvd, but to the max size of a single file in a ISO9660 filesystem.
 
Here's the prove (on sh):
Code: 
HUGE_FILE=4_gigs_file
dd if=/dev/random of="$HUGE_FILE" bs=1048576 count=4096
echo "$HUGE_FILE" > "$HUGE_FILE".lst
mkisofs -o "$HUGE_FILE".iso -V "$HUGE_FILE" -iso-level 3 --path-list "$HUGE_FILE".lst
Note than bs=1048576 count=4096 is 4*1024^3 bytes.
With this you will get
Code: 
mkisofs: Value too large to be stored in data type. File 4_gigs_file is too large - ignoring
Subtracting 1 from count (-1Mb) or from bs (-4Kb) you will be able to run mkisofs.

Maybe you can try using split(1) on your big file to fill the dvd.
Or experimenting with UDF.
 
How do i write an UDF DVD?

This doesn't seem to work:

Code: 
# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0 -udf /c2
Executing 'mkisofs -udf /c2 | builtin_dd of=/dev/pass0 obs=32k seek=0'
mkisofs: Value too large to be stored in data type. File /c2/c2.img is too large - ignoring
 
I see.

In that case i'll just burn my shit from Windows to save me the hassle. Hopefully the situation will improve.

Thanks.
 
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