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Bug 164432 - Should warn when mkisofs can't add files larger than 2 GB
Should warn when mkisofs can't add files larger than 2 GB
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus-cd-burner
Classification: Deprecated
Component: cd-burner
2.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Nautilus CD Burner Maintainers
Nautilus CD Burner Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-18 08:18 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2005-01-28 16:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (13.43 KB, patch)
2005-01-27 18:57 UTC, William Jon McCann 		committed Details | Review

Description Vincent Untz 2005-01-18 08:18:24 UTC 
I just wanted to make a backup on a DVD. I have a 4.6 GB tar file.
n-c-b happily burned a DVD-R without anything in it.
Running mkisofs by hand show this:
mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File /tmp/backup-2005-01-17.tar
is too large - ignoring

Looking on the net, it seems mkisofs doesn't support files larger than 2 GB.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2005-01-26 17:02:59 UTC 
I read somewhere that the limit might be 4.2 GB. (my file was still too big)
I'm just not sure what's the correct limit.
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2005-01-26 23:56:23 UTC 
I'm not yet able to confirm for myself that mkisofs has a file size limit.

As far as warning about the total size being more than 4.3GiB, this should be
fixed in 2.9.4 and later.
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2005-01-27 02:09:25 UTC 
The fix for bug 158940 partially fixes this problem.  Still to do: report useful
error messages to the user.
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2005-01-27 18:57:12 UTC 
Created attachment 36608 [details] [review]
patch

This patch adds strings and changes the API for make_iso().  However, it fixes
this bug and greatly improves error reporting.
Comment 5 William Jon McCann 2005-01-28 16:42:34 UTC 
Committed attached patch.