On 01/11/2010 04:09 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Stuart McGraw wrote: >> 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)? > > Growisofs with -Z option writes the first session, with -M writes the rest of > the sessions. Ah, ok. I had tried the -Z option with a small file and thought I ended up with a finalized disk because bacula reported the disk had 0 bytes of free space left. But I may have misinterpreted what I was seeing (or its message may have been bogus.) > My feeling is that writing an empty filesystem on a media buys > nothing and that's why there's no neat command to do it. If you don't want to > write data then why write anything? Because it's not me but the backup program that wants to write to the DVD and (I think) it wants a mounted DVD to write to. However, looking at another source of info, I may be wrong about that too. Thanks for the info. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
