On Friday February 25, 2005 11:59 am, John Wendel wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:12 +0100, A. Lanza wrote:
>>>i'm trying to burn a DVD using k3b, as i usually do for CD burning.
I'm
>>>using 4,7GB size DVD-R. The problem is that i cannot burn a 4,4GB. file.
>>>The file is exactly 4,613,704,668 bytes long.
>>>
>>>The message i get from k3b is the following:
>>> /usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type
>>>and then
>>> File <file> is too large - ignoring
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Remember that when you burn a file to a DVD, growisofs has to
convert
the file to an ISO filesystem image and then burn this to the DVD. This
process is adding to the number of bytes making the image too large for
the disk. Perhaps K3B's size calculation needs some adjustment to
account for this size expansion ???
And from the growisofs man page...
-overburn
Normally DVD media can accommodate up to approximately 4.700.000.000 bytes (in
marketing speech 4.7GB). In other words a DVD can contain about 4.377 GiB or
4482 MiB. Growisofs won't start without this option, if "overburn" condition
appears to be unavoidable.
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