DVD burning - mkisofs max size allowed

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Sat Feb 26 04:41:06 UTC 2005


Brian Ashe wrote:

> And from the growisofs man page...
> 
> -overburn 
> Normally DVD media can accommodate up to approximately 4.700.000.000 bytes (in 
> marketing speech 4.7GB). In other words a DVD can contain about 4.377 GiB or 
> 4482 MiB. Growisofs won't start without this option, if "overburn" condition 
> appears to be unavoidable.
> 

Bingo! And "-overburn" doesn't seem to be available as a DVD burning 
option in K3B.

John




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