[lug] Burning 4.7 gig DVDs

[mohadib]

unless you dont have a dual layer burner you shouldnt have a problem.
dvdrecord and growisofs are pretty nice. 

good luck,
jd


On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 23:58 +0000, D. Stimits wrote:
> 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
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