I thought I would test my blu-ray writer by backing up a bunch of big files to a BD-R. I used k3b which imagines there is 25GB of available space, so I added files till I was about to overflow that. Then I insert a blank BD-R disk (and hit bugzilla 742719), but I go ahead and tell it to burn, and growisofs (I think) gives an error saying that many files won't fit. So, I've got k3b telling me 25GB before it sees the media, 2.1TB after it sees the media, and growisofs not telling me a specific size, but saying I'm trying to write too much :-). It would sure be nice if there were a consistent answer here. Anyway, I keep pulling the smallest files out of the list till growisofs finally thinks it can burn the BD-R, and that runs for a while till it gets to about 98%, then gives an error saying the files won't fit, so the check it was doing earlier wasn't quite right. The last file it wrote gives I/O errors if I try to read it (but at least I can verify the checksums of all the other files). So, does anyone have any pointers to information on the actual capacity of BD-R disks? None of the tools on fedora seem to agree, and none of them appear to be correct either :-). (And web searches are remarkably fruitless on this topic). Is BD-R back to the days where you have to do a simulated write before you can get an actual answer? Or is it simpler just to provide about 3GB of slop to be sure everything fits? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
