Overcoming the 2GB limit in writing a dvd iso to disk

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     Does anyone know how to overcome the 2gb limit in writing a dvd iso
> image to a dvd-r disk.  I am currently using Fedora Core 6 and I just
> bought a dvd burner.  What I am finding out is that there is nothing
> wrong with the k3b software I am using, but that there is a file size
> limit of 2gb in trying to burn the software.  How do I overcome this?  I
> have never run into a problem like this before  in buring iso images and
> I would certainly appreciate any help available.

I just went through this on FC5.  What I discovered was, you *can* burn
an image of 4.7GB or 8GB in size, but none of the files in that image
can exceed 2GB in size (this seems to be a mkisofs limitation).  So,
what I did was to break up the large files into smaller chunks.  (Its
just as easy to cat them back together and pipe that output to a tar
command.)  If you look at DVD movies, you'll see that each VOB file is
around 1GB in size (max), so they don't have that problem anyways.

I don't think there is another solution for for large files, yet.

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