[lug] Burning 4.7 gig DVDs

[D. Stimits]

Elyse M. Grasso wrote:

>Does anyone know the settings in k3b or the commands to use on the command 
>line in order to actually use all of the space of a DVD? 
>
>Is there a particular version of the tools that I need to be using to get this 
>to work with Suse 10.0. I know Novell tends to provide crippled multimedia 
>stuff. 
>
>k3b reports the dvd has 4.4 Gigs available and the filesystems reports the 
>file (a slice generated by kdar) is 4.3 gigs, but k3b is refusing to accepts 
>files over 4 Gigs.
>
>Google reports others with the same problem, but I haven't found a clear 
>explanation of the settings to fix it.
>
>I am assuming, possibly wrongly, that kdar wouldn't be set up to create this 
>size of slice if no one could ever actually write them to a dvd.
>  
>
I'm wondering if maybe the overhead of any block device is interfering 
with it...all block devices suffer the need to store metadata in some 
way, e.g., an inode required for each 4k or 8k as an example in ext2. If 
the image itself is truly under 4.4 GB and it is a full ISO 9660 
filesystem, it should probably work (in this case the overhead is 
contained inside of the file). I'd also wonder if maybe the 4.4 GB 
reported is a mistaken 4400 MB, which is really 4400/1024 GB (4.297 
GB)...some applications will mistakenly use base 10 and label it with 
GB/MB/KB, rather than reporting via divisions of 1024. That said, if you 
already have an ISO file, you could burn it directly with cdrecord and 
ignore k3b.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net