On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:24:20 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I > got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used > Kbackup to create a tarball of my data. K3b gives me a error saying > the file is to large. I did some googling and searched around on the > forums, even posted on one thread, but I can not figure out how to > get this thing to burn. Will it just not burn large files or what? >
Hey, Dale! Nice to see you back! I believe it means your archive is too big for the media disk you. Are you trying to write 4.7[GiB] on a 4.7[GB] DVD disc? 4.7 GB (giga) = 4.7 x 10^9 = 4700000000 (DVD media disc capacity) 4.7 GiB (gibi) = 4.7 x 2^30 = 5046586572.8 (the "too large" file) "Gibi" is often incorrectly called "giga" which leads to confusions. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
