Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2800 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Saturday 10 February 2007 13:42, Janus wrote:
>   
>> On Saturday 10 February 2007 15:32, Kai Ponte wrote:
>>     
>>> I cannot answer that question, but I've been VERY happy with DAR and KDar
>>> doing my backups and splitting them into 2GB slices.
>>>       
>> KDar never worked for me on SUSE10.0, but I will give a a new try once I
>> get 10.2 installed on my workstation. Handy for backup to DVDs.
>>
>> Can I ask you why you choose 2 GB slices? Is 2 still a magic number on
>> Linux?
>>     
>
> Um, for some reason, K3B can't make a DVD out of one 4.7GB file. I don't quite 
> understand why - something to do with math, and I suck at math. 
>
> In any case, I can put two 2 GB files on a DVD without a problem.
>
>   
It has something to do with the file format.  I use a 4 GB slice.

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