[ale] Large Files

[Greg Freemyer]

On 12/21/05, Jim Philips <briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 22:53, fostermail at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Is there something I can plug into k3b in order to write 4G-plus files?
> > TIA
>
> Remember that K3B itself is nothing more than a nice front end for some other
> programs that actually write to the media. I would check the settings and see
> what is writing to the DVD and run that program from the command line to see
> what errors it gives. You may need another DVD authoring program, and point
> to it in your settings for K3B.

You are using UDF as your filesystem type, right?  It is the standard
one for DVDs.

Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems UDF can
support truly huge files  (Think Exabytes!!!!!).

FYI, if you don't know the new terminology:
Exbibyte
= 1024 Tebibytes
= 1024 * 1024 Gibibytes
= 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Mebibytes (spelling)
= 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Kibibytes  (spelling)
= 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Bytes

As opposed to:
Exabyte
= 1000 Terabytes
= 1000 * 1000 Gigabytes
= 1000 * 1000 * 1000 Megabytes
= 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 Kilobytes
= 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 Bytes

The above are being used more and more in europe and are now NIST standards.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century