On 01/11/2010 03:36 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: > 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.) Note that the command was "-Z /dev/dvd -R -J /file /file ..." That's different than "-Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/isoimage" which WILL close the session. In other words, if there's an "=" in the command, the session will close as it will write the disk with the image AND fill it out with zeroes after to close the session. >> 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. You might want to take a look at the options for wodim as well, specifically the "-multi" and "-nofix" options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Perseverance: When you're too damned stubborn to say "I quit!" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
