DVD+RW burns 3GB but only reads back as 13MB
Wolfgang
wolfgang at rpi.net.au
Sun Dec 28 04:49:44 UTC 2003
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:38, Peter Kiem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with DVD+RW burning in Fedora? I am
> trying to do it from command line (rather than use something like k3b)
> as I am trying to work this into my backup scripts.
>
> I used to use a CD-RW drive for doing backups but just replaced the
> drive with a DVD+RW drive to cut down on the number of discs I have to
> write.
>
> No matter what I did I couldn't get dvdrecord working as a replacement
> for cdrecord. Errors ranged from "cannot burn > 100 mins" to "Wrong
> media".
>
> After a bit of reading I found the growisofs command which seemed to
> work fine. This is the command I gave to burn a 3GB tar file to the
> DVD+RW
>
> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrom holding.tar
>
> Now growisofs SAID it wrote the full 3GB and looking at the disc it
> certainly has used most of the area as you can see where it has written
> the data.
>
> But when I try to read the disc in either of 2 DVD drives I have on the
> system I can only see a 13MB file!
>
> Any ideas cause this has got me stumped :(
I use X-CDroast to burn DVD-RW's. But to do that with X-Cdroast (For
example) one needs to download another program to allow that to happen.
This site will help in that area
http://www.xcdroast.org/
With the Cdrecord.ProDVD file, I can burn the full 4.7GB's without a
problem (I use it for system backups too). Just take note that you need
a special key to be able to burn at full capacity (That info is shown on
the main page). There may be other ways to do it, but I found this way
much easier for me, and it may help you too.
Wolf
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