On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Fulko Hew wrote: > >Thats correct behaviour. The end of a CD is very low accuracy only. > > OK. But (in my nievity) doesn't that make it difficult to 'dup' CDs? > ie. you couldn't do a: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=test.iso bs=2048 Each copy will gradually get a bit longer unless you know the real .iso size (which is easy to find). The iso file system knows its own size so it ignores the padding