mkisofs -dvd-video from a fat32 filesystem

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jul 7 14:03:23 EDT 2003


Yes, Linux supports both vat16 and fat32..  But agreed, 4gb isn't
big enough to hold a complete dvd.  too bad the linux ntfs driver
is so flakey. :(

-derek

"Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller at stratus.com> writes:

> You'd be absolutely correct... Monday + !caffeine = "confused Tim"
> 
> However, having spent a lot of time in Hell (also known as Windows tech
> support) fat16 is 2gb and fat32 is 4gb...  I'm not sure if Linux supports
> fat32 or not. Even then, it still wouldn't be capable of holding an entire
> DVD worth of material.
> 
> Tim.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:23 AM
> To: Keller, Tim
> Cc: 'Darxus at chaosreigns.com'; discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: mkisofs -dvd-video from a fat32 filesystem
> 
> 
> Tim,
> 
> I don't think you read the message completely.  The question wasn't
> "how can I make a large file" but, rather, "how can I make a large
> file on a partition that is shared between Linux and Windows"?  Do you
> know of an extN driver for windows he could use?  The NTFS driver for
> Linux is still pretty raw....
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller at stratus.com> writes:
> 
> > >> 2gb filesize limit.
> > 
> > The 2gb filesize limit was shattered a long time ago.  I've got a RH7.3
> box
> > and I just created a 2.6GB file on an ext3 partition without a problem.
> > 
> > Tim.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darxus at chaosreigns.com [mailto:Darxus at chaosreigns.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:16 PM
> > To: discuss at blu.org
> > Subject: Re: mkisofs -dvd-video from a fat32 filesystem
> > 
> > 
> > On 07/04, Darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
> > >  mkisofs -sort sort.file -dvd-video
> > 
> > Command terminated by signal 25
> > ^ 2gb filesize limit.  I originally assumed the limit was the fat32
> > filesystem, but someone mentioned I might need to patch something.
> > 
> > And the author of dvdbackup says it wouldn't have worked anyway (without
> > mkisofs doing the sorting).  
> > 
> > So with ntfs write support still being "DANGEROUS", is there no filsystem
> > that I can write over 2gb files to from both linux and windows ?  
> > (these DVD blanks are 4.7gb)
> > 
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