On 01/11/2010 02:40 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: > I am trying to setup backup software (Bacula) on my home > network and ran into a real dumb newbie DVD question I haven't > been able to google an answer to (at least an answer I could > understand) since I have never used writable DVDs before. > > How does one write a iso filesystem onto a blank DVD+R disk > without writing any files, and leaving the DVD writable (i.e, > not finalized if that this the right term)? The growisofs > and mkisofs man pages are mostly greek to me. Is there a > magic cookbook incantation I can use until I can figure > out all the techy details?\ It's pretty simple: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /path/file1 /path/file2 ... When you want to add more files: growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /path/to/more/files ... The magic is replacing the "-Z" (meaning "initialize session") with "-M" (merge data into session). When you finally want to close the session: growisofs -M /dev/dvd=/dev/zero which fills out the rest of the session with zeroes. Hope that helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - 500: Internal Fortune Cookie Error - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
