Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:14:45 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Bartosz Stec <admin@kkip.pl> Subject: Re: Burning DVD with files>4GB from console Message-ID: <493801F5.2050009@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20081204154507.GA18645@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <4937A786.9080403@kkip.pl> <20081204154507.GA18645@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Bartosz Stec wrote: >> My backup script split filesystem dumps to files with size of 4,37 GB (4 >> 588 544 kB). It's just an optimal size to fill out DVDs. At this moment >> I have to burn them from windows via smb-link becuase I didn't manage to >> do this task from FreeBSD console due to 2GB/4GB filesize restrictions >> (growisofs). > > Since when did FreeBSD (or growisofs) have a 2GB/4GB filesize limit? I > have burned 4.3GB DVDs several times. I never had a problem writing huge files. But I did have a problem subsequently reading it with Windows XP. Maybe the file size restriction is a Windows thing.
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