Re: DVD File with >2GB

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/26/05 

Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:38:40 -0500

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:00:51 +0200, Markus Hoffmann staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> How is it posible to put files greater than 2GB on a DVD file system?

*Which* DVD filesystem? ISO9660 is limited to 2G because file sizes are
stored in a signed 32-bit int. UDF does not have that limitation.

> Is there any way?

Use UDF instead of ISO9660. "man mkisofs" and search for "udf" for the
proper option to feed to mkisofs. 

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