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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:40:28 -0600
From:      Chris Meyers <chris@hddesign.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mkisofs vs large files
Message-ID:  <1077288027.642.2.camel@zim.hddesign.com>
In-Reply-To: <1077122844.631.22.camel@zim.hddesign.com>
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Replying to myself here in the hopes that someone who can help didn't
see this the first time I posted. Any help to the below problem would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 10:47, Chris Meyers wrote:
> I am running 5.1-RELEASE-p2 with dvd+rw-tools version 5.17.4.8.6 and
> mkisofs version 2.0.3_1 and I'm having some problems with mkisofs and
> files larger than 2GB. Basically what I am trying to do is backup some
> database dumps to a dvd. Everything was working fine until the dumps got
> larger than 2 Gigs. Now I get this message when I try to use growisofs:
>=20
> % growisofs -dry-run -Z /dev/cd0 -R -J bkupdir
> Executing 'mkisofs -R -J feb8 | builtin_dd of=3D/dev/pass0 obs=3D32k seek=
=3D0'
> mkisofs: Value too large to be stored in data type. File
> bkupdir/large-file-20040208.sql.gz is too large - ignoring
> Total translation table size: 0
> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 169
> Total directory bytes: 0
> Path table size(bytes): 10
>=20
> I have looked around and found some articles and emails that say the
> mkisofs has a 2 gig limit in some circumstances, but I have also seen
> articles and emails that say this shouldn't be the case on FreeBSD or
> when dvd+rw-tools is installed.
>=20
> The man page for mkisofs gives a -split-output option which I tried in
> hopes that it would split the file as necessary, but I got the same
> error.
>=20
> Anyone have any clues or advice?
>=20
> Thanks,
> Chris

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