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[ILUG] [OTish] Mkisofs and Large Files

[ILUG] [OTish] Mkisofs and Large Files

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Sat Jan 31 09:53:32 GMT 2004


On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:11:04AM -0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Hamilton, David thought:
> I have been trying to create DVD iso images using mkisofs, but have
> found that on HP-UX, mkisofs won't create a file of larger than 2Gb even
> if the filesystem it's on supports it.

What version of mkisofs?  Apparently V1.14 or later supports DVD-size ISOs
using growisofs to actually record them.  (I'm told this but have no
further knowledge on the subject...)

> If I use mkisofs with the -split-output option, can I just cat file0
> file1 file2 file3 > image.iso with the files it creates to make one nice
> big iso image file?

Looks like it.  That's what cdrecord does to burn them.
 
Conor
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