Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3893 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>   
>> * James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> [01-01-07 14:29]:
>>  [...] 
>>   
>>     
>>> FWIW, when I create a 4000 MB slice, K3B shows it as 3.9 GB and 482 MB
>>> (IIRC) available.  So, something is keeping K3B from writing to the full
>>> capacity of the DVD.
>>>     
>>>       
>> growisofs appears to be limited to 4G, that 4000*1024*1024.  I have no
>> problem writting <=4G.  >4G growisofs faults.
>>
>> 16:16 wahoo:~ > rpm -qf `which growisofs` `which k3b`
>> dvd+rw-tools-7.0-0.pm.0
>> k3b-0.12.17-100.pm.0
>>
>> BUT, I have written >4G iso's  ???
>>
>>   
>>     
> Perhaps growisofs is part of the creating the ISO process and can't
> exceed 4 GB.  And perhaps K3B is capable of burning an ISO greater than
> 4 GB, once it has been created by other means.
>
>   
Another thing I've noticed is that doing backups this way causes my
computer clock to run slow, despite running on an AMD 64 bit cpu and
running ntpd.

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