[lug] DVD writing with growisofs

[Gary Hodges]

I'm trying to write a large file (~4 GB) to a DVD using growisofs.  The 
writing process (seemingly) proceeds along just fine, but the file isn't 
getting written correctly.  On a Windows machine the file shows up as 
the correct size, but only as ~8 MB on my Linux machine.  I've written 
other DVDs without trouble, it is just this one that is causing problems.

Gary

~>growisofs -version
* growisofs by <appro at fy.chalmers.se>, version 5.12,
  front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 2.01a17 (i686-suse-linux)


space:/home/hodges # growisofs -Z /dev/sr2 -l -r -J /home/hodges/dvd/
Executing 'mkisofs -l -r -J /home/hodges/dvd/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/sr2 
obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/sr2: pre-formatting blank DVD+RW...
/dev/sr2: "Current Write Speed" is 4.0x1385KBps.
  0.25% done, estimate finish Wed Sep  1 19:34:04 2004
### Intermediate lines deleted ###
 99.99% done, estimate finish Wed Sep  1 16:07:51 2004
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 251
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 21864
1995277 extents written (3897 Mb)
/dev/sr2: flushing cache
/dev/sr2: stopping de-icing
/dev/sr2: writing lead-out
/dev/sr2: reloading tray


# The original file
space:/home/hodges # ls -lh dvd/hda8.dd.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 nobuki   users        3.9G 2004-08-31 10:52 dvd/hda8.dd.gz

# After being written to the DVD
space:/home/hodges # ls -lh /media/dvd/hda8.dd.gz
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         8.7M 2004-08-31 10:52 
/media/dvd/hda8.dd.gz

# After being copied from the DVD to the hard drive
space:/home/hodges # ls -lh temp/hda8.dd.gz
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         8.7M 2004-09-01 16:55 temp/hda8.dd.gz