Files larger than 4G

Burning Software Nero & InCD
#1

I had a funny experience with NeroLinux. I burnt a DVD with two files, one of them is just a couple of bytes, the other one was more than 4 GB. The burn was succesfull (according to Nero) and the verification was OK. But when I mounted the DVD, the big file was shown to be about 300 MB.

It took me a bit of time, a couple of web searches, and another unsucceful burn to figure out, that ISO9660 doesn’t support files larger than 4 GB. So I found my explanation, but I think Nero should at least warn you about this, instead of claiming that your burn went fine.

Otherwise I like the software, if I don’t find any flaws by the end of the evaluation period, I’ll buy it.

#2

NeroLINUX normally warns you about that: you should get a yes/no dialog that ask you to switch to a pure UDF file system in order to bypass this 2 GB limitation.

#3

Thanks for the reply. I’m pretty sure NeroLINUX didn’t warn me, so you may take this as a bug report. If it had warned me, I would have known. And anyway, what if you don’t switch to UDF, does it still burn the DVD? Because I think it shouldn’t, but I DID burn a DVD succefully.

My settings: ISO Options: Mode 1, Use Joilet extensions, do NOT allow more than 64 characters for Joliet names, do NOT use RockRidge Extensions. Version: 2.0.0.2

#4

Hi

same issue here…It doesn´t warn you. But there is a workaround.
Example:
-drop your 4.xGB File into the window.
-check the screen with the pen. You´ll see that it is still ISO9660 mentioned.
-drop now a 2nd big file. Now there will be a mesage asking you to switch to UDF.
-do it.
-remove the 2nd big file and burn it.

thats not perfect, but it works.

#5

You can also DnD the UDF file system in the track editor. This will replace the ISO and let you butn correctly files larger that 4GB

#6

mathf

sorry no idea what you mean.
Where can I throw the UDF File System in? And How?

#7

It’s quite simple:

Check the left area with your filesystem visible (My Computer). Scroll down to the bottom, theres a “Filesystems” entry. Click on it and check out the right part of NeroLinux GUI. There you can drag and drop the UDF in the track editor below.

#8

aah there it is.
never scrolled down so far, cause its quite rare that I burn something from /var

thanks

#9

But I hope you guys at Nero do agree with me that not warning the user is a bug (though not very serious), so it should be fixed.