Re: [MiNT] Partition sizes

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:46:10 , "m0n0" <ole@monochrom.net> wrote:
>
> Am Fr, 20.08.2010, 14:33 schrieb Peter Slegg:
>
> > What is the max file size on Mint partitions ?
>
> I think you should diff between "MiNT" partitions and ISO file formats.
>
> > I have just upgraded to CD Writer Suite (DVD) and surprised to find that
> > the maximum it can write to DVD is limited to 2 GByte by the os. The ext2
> > docs suggest this could be bigger.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2
>
> ISO Images Filesystems have nothing to do with ext2 ... But if there is an
> limit for ext2 partitions, then there is maybe an problem putting such an
> large block of data onto the ext2 partition ( for example 4GB ISO on 2 GB
> ext2 partition). The limit can also be there because of the Disc... maybe
> it's an small DVD =) ?
>
> Do you have an FAT32 partition (> 4 GB) available for your MiNT setup? You
> could try that. And I assume you will need the HDDriver ...  At least you
> will need such an big partition, because I assume the CD Writer Suite
> wants to create the CDROM ISO Filesystem before writing it - the opposite
> is called "On the fly" recording.
>
> Good luck,
> m0n0
>
>

Yes I know all that. Obviously CD writer has to create the ISO image
on a partition before writing to DVD and it assumes there is a 2GB
limit on all partition types and so won't start creating the ISO
image.

If this isn't the case then a change is needed to CD Writer.

If there really is a 2GB limit in Mint fs then can it be increased ?

Peter