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Re: dvd+rw-tools-5.20.4.10.8: File is too large



>From: Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@paradise.net.nz>
>Yes. Obviously this works only before you've burnt the disk. If you get
>a disk from someone else, tough.

>> because mkisofs adds a generous amount of padding by default.
>> (300 kB according to 2.01a35's man mkisofs, option "-pad") 

>It used to be 30k, which was enough for 2.2 but not for 2.4 kernels. I
>found that adding >0.5MB was enough in the cases I tested, though use
>1MB.

The CD-standard requires 300 kB (150 sectors) of padding. If Linux does more
read ahead and fails because it it doing so, this is a lcear bug that you
should report to the Linux Kernel folks.

Jörg

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