DVD burning - mkisofs max size allowed

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 26 05:00:56 UTC 2005


John Wendel wrote:
> 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.

Found the overburn selection.  Look at Tools -> Configure K3b....  Once 
the Options - K3b dialog window opens, look at the Advanced tab under 
Writing.  There is a selection to allow overburning.  This should be 
what you are looking for.
-- 
James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
and ibm-acpi .1
Need a home for my .rpm




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