[lug] DVD writing with growisofs (SOLVED)

[Gary Hodges]

Gary Hodges wrote:

> 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. 


To write the 3.9 GB file to disk so that it can be read I used the -udf 
option by itself.  A coworker found this suggestion somewhere.

growisofs -Z /dev/sr2 -udf /home/hodges/dvd/

The mkisofs manpage cautions using the -udf option as it is in alpha 
status.  It gives funny ownerships as well.  There is probably a better 
option.

~>ls -lh /media/dvd
total 3.9G
dr-xr-xr-x    2 4294967295 4294967295       92 2004-08-31 17:06 .
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root          224 2003-11-13 09:21 ..
-r--r--r--    1 4294967295 4294967295     3.9G 2004-08-31 10:52 hda8.dd.gz

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