Max file size limit for burning DVD

Joshua Henderson josh at joshhendo.com
Tue Feb 6 08:27:59 GMT 2007


I would suggest trying another application to burn your CDs with, either
GnomeBaker or k3b (both can be found in Synaptic)

- Josh

On 2/5/07, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi fellow Ubuntuans,
>
> For a year or more I have been backing up important data to a large
> tar file and burning it to DVD.  Last month the files were approaching
> 4GB and I feared I would be unable to put the entire backup on a
> single DVD so I started to split the resultant tar file into smaller
> chunks of 4GB, which should easy fit on a single layer DVD.  This
> month, the backup ran and has split the tar into one 4GB chunk and one
> 41.6MB chunk.
>
> This weekend I upgraded to Edgy and am just now trying to do my first
> DVD burn.  I started with the first 4GB chunk of my backup, but using
> the Gnome DC/DVD creator, all I get is an empty disk, no file is
> burnt.  When I burnt the smaller 41.6MB remaining chunk, it seems to
> burn just fine.
>
> After doing some searching, there is mention of a file size limit of
> around 1GB (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=352386), but
> I have been burning DVD's with single file >3.5GB in size for the past
> year. (In fact, I thought I had burnt a single file that was bigger
> than 4GB in the past but can't be 100% certain)
>
> Can anyone shed some light?  Should I split my files into chunks just
> smaller than 4GB (say about 3.9GB)?
>
> Thanks,
> Whytey
>
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